That's not a facetious question. It is a very real one.
On June 1, I joined the 47 million other Americans who do not have health insurance. I could not afford to pay what COBRA was asking and so if any of my ongoing health problems reoccurs, I'm a dead duck.
Having had three major surgeries over the past six years, there is no way I can get new health insurance, even if I could pay for it.
So my question is very real. I wish I were sitting across the table from an insurance company CEO, one from Pharma and any Republican or any of the Blue Dog Democrats who are trying to block the public option. All I want to find out from them is their answer to my question.
Why are you trying to kill me?
Really. Why? Me, the person sitting across from you. Why would you deny me medical care?
I know the answer, of course. It's money. Greed, to be more specific, because there's lots of money to be made in health care without killing me. How much money do you need to make? How many of us are you willing to make suffer and die to make that money?
These people are terrorists in the truest sense. They kill indiscriminately. Greed is their reason for their jihad. They'll kill me indiscriminately unless Congress passes a public option.
Wait. There's more.
Not only do they want me dead, they contributed, along with the banks to the bankruptcy I never envisioned.
See, I had health insurance. But I also had three major surgeries and another out-patient hospital procedure. I ended up owing thousands of dollars even after the insurance paid their part. At the same time, I got laid off from my job. At the same time, I was flooded with credit card "approvals."
Out of work, faced with all of these bills, and with access to the credit, I pretty much lived on plastic. Until it all caught up with me.
I hope you never owe money. After your debt gets passed on to the collection companies, you can expect daily calls, sometimes twice daily, many time harassing calls. And if your debtors number 5 or 10 or more, you can expect that many calls per day....or twice that many.
So the banks screwed themselves. The number of bankruptcies are at an all-time high.
All of this stemmed from medical bills.
Look me in the eye CEO. Look me in the eye Blue Dog Democrats. Republicans, too. My death is going to be on your hands unless you vote for the public option. Mine and hundreds of thousands of other people caught up in this mess.
I ask again. Why do you want me to die?
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