A letter to cousin John Boehner
John, I know it maybe too early to talk about the Christmas Season but I just have to tell you that Ann and I would not be able to invite you and Deborah to the house this season for either our Hanukah or Christmas celebrations. We’re broke.
As you may remember visiting me in the hospital this Spring I already had concerns how I was going to pay the bills. Surgery has never been cheap and since I was laid off, I had no better sense than to need by-pass surgery. Me, getting by-pass surgery with no more health insurance than my keyboard and the hospital also claims my condition was pre-existing which makes the situation more complicated.
I remember Dad talking about your medical discharge from the Navy after serving for only eight weeks. I wasn’t even born then but Dad talked about that for years and I often wondered if he and your Mom ever discussed it. That gives you a pre-existing medical condition but I guess your insurance company from the Senate makes all that disappear.
I am not asking you for money to help pay my bills. I hear you and some of your friends are not trying to make things easier for people like me when we get sick and need medical treatment and have all these bills. We are not Senators like you and your friends who can get preferential treatment. It’s very hard so I beg you and your friends to help us anyway you can with your votes. It is kind of complicated for me but I do hear things every now and then and see you talking on television.
Also I want to tell you we had to cancel little Josh’s Bar Mitzvah and Sarah has to wait until better times to go to Columbia. She had her heart set on going there but things happen. Medical bills happened. We are beyond being embarrassed about our situation now. Ann sends her love.
Yours truly,
Cousin Josh
Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-Span and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
If You Don't Want the Public Option, Get the Hell Out of the Way
Excerpt:
Please explain, conservatives and wingnuts, why you wouldn't seriously consider switching to the public option if it turned out to be more affordable and portable from job to job -- not to mention the fact that you wouldn't be turned down for a preexisting condition; you wouldn't be randomly booted from the plan as soon as you needed it most; and you would never have to worry about health insurance coverage ever again. Employed or unemployed. Sick or healthy.
And
The fact remains that the only downside to the public option is that it's just too awesome. We don't deserve anything that good. Simply put: it's Medicare, but for anyone who wants it. And this is somehow a nightmare scenario -- one that we must never be allowed to experience even though it would cost much less than our current system, it would cover everyone who wants it, and it would be accountable to the American people. This is somehow a terrible idea. Terrible to the private health insurance mafia, that is. They simply can't allow you to have an affordable public option because they need your financial support. Face it, $1.4 million a day to lobby members of Congress isn't cheap.
And
However people are, in fact, dropping dead here due to a lack of affordable, reliable healthcare. They're being abandoned on the street. They're being denied coverage and care. They're going bankrupt and losing everything just because they had the bad luck of losing their job and then getting sick. And the Republicans are telling us that this is the best system ever, even though our infant mortality rate ranks 29th, our life expectancy ranks 42nd (so much for "pro life") and our healthcare spending is the highest among industrialized nations.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/if-you-dont-want-the-publ_b_228324.html
The Health Care Crisis: Letters from Vermont and America
Excerpt:
A woman in Eagle, Idaho, wrote of "a beautiful, intelligent, hard working small business owner who died because she couldn't afford to buy health insurance for her family nor her employees. She was 53 and I will never forgive my county for allowing the greed of the insurance companies to limit her opportunity for preventable health care. A colonoscopy at 50 would have saved her life."
Because every American needs to hear what's going on with health care in this country, I intend to read some of these letters on the floor of the Senate and send a copy of the booklet to every member of Congress.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-bernie-sanders/the-health-care-crisis-le_b_227822.html
John Boehner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boehner
As you may remember visiting me in the hospital this Spring I already had concerns how I was going to pay the bills. Surgery has never been cheap and since I was laid off, I had no better sense than to need by-pass surgery. Me, getting by-pass surgery with no more health insurance than my keyboard and the hospital also claims my condition was pre-existing which makes the situation more complicated.
I remember Dad talking about your medical discharge from the Navy after serving for only eight weeks. I wasn’t even born then but Dad talked about that for years and I often wondered if he and your Mom ever discussed it. That gives you a pre-existing medical condition but I guess your insurance company from the Senate makes all that disappear.
I am not asking you for money to help pay my bills. I hear you and some of your friends are not trying to make things easier for people like me when we get sick and need medical treatment and have all these bills. We are not Senators like you and your friends who can get preferential treatment. It’s very hard so I beg you and your friends to help us anyway you can with your votes. It is kind of complicated for me but I do hear things every now and then and see you talking on television.
Also I want to tell you we had to cancel little Josh’s Bar Mitzvah and Sarah has to wait until better times to go to Columbia. She had her heart set on going there but things happen. Medical bills happened. We are beyond being embarrassed about our situation now. Ann sends her love.
Yours truly,
Cousin Josh
Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-Span and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
If You Don't Want the Public Option, Get the Hell Out of the Way
Excerpt:
Please explain, conservatives and wingnuts, why you wouldn't seriously consider switching to the public option if it turned out to be more affordable and portable from job to job -- not to mention the fact that you wouldn't be turned down for a preexisting condition; you wouldn't be randomly booted from the plan as soon as you needed it most; and you would never have to worry about health insurance coverage ever again. Employed or unemployed. Sick or healthy.
And
The fact remains that the only downside to the public option is that it's just too awesome. We don't deserve anything that good. Simply put: it's Medicare, but for anyone who wants it. And this is somehow a nightmare scenario -- one that we must never be allowed to experience even though it would cost much less than our current system, it would cover everyone who wants it, and it would be accountable to the American people. This is somehow a terrible idea. Terrible to the private health insurance mafia, that is. They simply can't allow you to have an affordable public option because they need your financial support. Face it, $1.4 million a day to lobby members of Congress isn't cheap.
And
However people are, in fact, dropping dead here due to a lack of affordable, reliable healthcare. They're being abandoned on the street. They're being denied coverage and care. They're going bankrupt and losing everything just because they had the bad luck of losing their job and then getting sick. And the Republicans are telling us that this is the best system ever, even though our infant mortality rate ranks 29th, our life expectancy ranks 42nd (so much for "pro life") and our healthcare spending is the highest among industrialized nations.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/if-you-dont-want-the-publ_b_228324.html
The Health Care Crisis: Letters from Vermont and America
Excerpt:
A woman in Eagle, Idaho, wrote of "a beautiful, intelligent, hard working small business owner who died because she couldn't afford to buy health insurance for her family nor her employees. She was 53 and I will never forgive my county for allowing the greed of the insurance companies to limit her opportunity for preventable health care. A colonoscopy at 50 would have saved her life."
Because every American needs to hear what's going on with health care in this country, I intend to read some of these letters on the floor of the Senate and send a copy of the booklet to every member of Congress.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-bernie-sanders/the-health-care-crisis-le_b_227822.html
John Boehner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boehner
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