Dems, It’s Time to Dump Dixie

[Hortensis]

125. Our neighbor with uncontrollable blood pressure has a new insurance premium this year.

$923 per month with a $10,000 deductible. They're small farmers, or were as they're getting too old, no matter how hard they work. And they do, very hard. These bills must be breaking them fast. Frankly, I have no idea how they've lasted this long. These are people who sell eggs for cash and haven't been to a local restaurant in years.

That $923 is the cost for free-market insurance, of course, placed for them by their friendly local commission-added agent. Unfortunately, they believe the lies that Obamacare will destroy the country and that people under it are dying for lack of care.

Living in the South, this kind of willful stupidity is a constant frustration, and I can't help sympathizing with the fantasy of fencing these people off to keep from dragging the nation down, but our friends are very good people otherwise. Their premiums last year were horribly high, much, much, much higher than my federal-exchange own that I quoted to them, but they see struggling to pay free market prices as a matter of patriotism, freedom, and morality. They are trying to save their country and are willing to sacrifice themselves to do their part.