The Savage Arithmetic of the Pre-Existing Condition

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8. Your articulate this so well

and you speak for so many others who are in similar situations.

It is painful to hear the fear in your voice because you have never been a man afraid of anything. I don't know a single American who doesn't get a worried look in their eyes when the topic of health insurance is raised. The thought of the future weighs so heavily. Life and death hangs in some precarious balance.

Like dumb animals on a factory farm, we mill about like contented cows until we have the misfortune of getting sick. Then we are downers and of no use to them, not worthy of their attention unless we have something of value to offer in return.

We have not advanced much past the days of barber surgeons and leeches. This is the shame of modern medicine. They are ambulance chasers whose first concern is the money. I for one cannot afford the price.

I think the day has come when Americans need to start practicing medicine without a license. On ourselves.