"Out of sight, out of mind" crowd on healthcare.

[Buddyblazon]

I'm watching This Week on ABC with Stepanopoulis. They're talking about healthcare.

And I've had enough.

Enough of people that want to tell me there's nothing wrong with healthcare....simply because they have healthcare.

My Fiance pays 35$ a month for healthcare through her employer. Pretty good right? Better than what most have to pay. But, if she wants to add me (even once we get married in March)....$400 A MONTH!!!! And I'm healthy. I've gotten use to not going to the doctor. 400$ a month to cover my ass in case I get cancer...or have a heart attack (to which they'd quintuple the rates anyway).

I work in Production and have for years. There is zero healthcare for people in my industry. And then I have to hear from my Republic Father whose retired military and has healtcare for life...and the BIGGEST "out of sight, out of mind" person I know...telling me "that's your choice"...and listen to him for hours about how I need to quit the industry I'm in and get a 9-5 job.

FOR WHAT POPS? SO I CAN TOIL FOR 30-40 YEARS FOR A PENSION THAT I MOST LIKELY WON'T EVEN RECEIVE? TO LIVE IN A CUBE FOR DECADES? AND STILL PAY SEVERAL HUNDRED DOLLARS A MONTH FOR HEALTHCARE?

Back to my Fiance's policy. She was having some health issues. She gets a phone call from the insurance company. In short, they tell her if she wants to actually USE her policy...they're going to raise her rates.

Back to my colleagues in my industry. Of the one's I'm used to working with...NOT ONE HAS HEALTH INSURANCE! And that statement is 100% accurate.

Last week one of my acquaintances who has fallen on hard times, who had to leave for a period of time to take care of an ailing parent, gets an abscessed tooth. Goes to Denver General. They pull it for 80$. Didn't really have the extra money at the time...but hey...his tooth is infected...what else can he do.

Within a few days his face swells up like a balloon. He's getting sick. Throwing up. Can't even walk without the help of his girlfriend. Goes back to Denver General. They tell him he needs a root canal. They can do it for 76$. Since he had no money when he came back (after several months looking after ailing mother), and hadn't been able to work since he got home (he himself being very ill) says, "I don't have any money."

THOSE SOB'S TELL HIM HE HAS TO LEAVE!!!! I had to loan him money so THAT HE WOULDN'T DIE OF AN INFECTION.

My Mother is a psychoanalyst. She has her own business and sees client out of her house. She's a diabetic. THEY CHARGE HER 900$+ A MONTH FOR HER HEALTHCARE! THAT IS BORDERING ON CRIMINAL! 900$ AND MORE! AND EVERY YEAR THEY RAISE HER PREMIUMS! EVERY YEAR!


I myself have had health insurance a total of 3 years out of the 10 years since I've left College.


And to rub it in, we have these friggin' idiots with health insurance, that live these corporate rat lives that think, "Well I have health insurance, everybody must have health insurance. If they CHOOSE not to have health insurance, that's on them."


Enough is enough. None of us choose not to have healthcare. Do you think we haven't looked into the alternatives?

The "out of sight, out of mind" crowd makes me so angry. If I have to hear one more time their smug fucking attitudes about the healthcare THEY TAKE FOR GRANTED...I'm just going to shake the shit out of one of them and tell them, "HEY ASSHOLE, IF I COULD GET AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE...THAT I COULD ACTUALLY USE WITHOUT BEING PENALIZED OUT THE WAZOO...DON'T YOU THINK I'D HAVE IT?"




To which I'm sure they'd respond, "That's your choice."