Well...my insurance premium is going up by $176.19 a month (and a Thank You)

[MADem]

68. Heheh...I'll bet you disappointed a few people who eagerly clicked on your link!!!

I am very happy for you, and for anyone who needs insurance and can now get it.

I could be one of those cheap "No Soup For YOU" basstids, because I am not in your shoes-- I'm covered under TRICARE so what happens with the ACA doesn't affect me, personally, or my immediate family.

However, I did have a relative who lost his job, was diabetic on several pricey meds, who then had a stroke--not a little stroke, a SERIOUS stroke. This would have spelled disaster for him, were he not covered under the predecessor to the ACA, the little Bay State "test bed," RomneyCare.

He got the best care anyone could want, from hospital to rehab to nursing home to outpatient therapy...and he could have had more "at home" services that he didn't bother to take (family decided to rally round and give him some help, as we do).

He's up and about now--not as good as new, but way better than he would have been had he been left without care.

I think medical care should be a right for all of us. Not nose jobs or ass lifts, necessarily, but the basic kind of stuff that keeps us healthy and fixes us when we're sick. Surely we can do this--it's just the right thing to do. Why the cheapass wingnuts can't see this, I just will never know....