I am self employed and uninsured now. I have a lousy credit history, and cant get credit due to mountains of unpaid medical bills.
I am a 55 year old, self employed woman with a preexisting, chronic hilliness (RA) that has made me basically uninsurable on the private market.
I am a pissed off liberal who cant stand the thought of giving in to the Liberman and Nelson demands.
I am a lifelong Democrat who can not fathom being on the same side of an issue as Michelle Bachman and Glen Beck.(kill the bill)
I am almost 55 and uninsured and boy the medicare buyin sure sounded good.
But I have family and friends who would have been left out in the cold by that provision though, so how can I make like a frigging teabagger and scream get your underaged hands of my government run, socialist health care?
My inner idealist wants to say kill the bill, start over and do it right this time,
But my pragmatic side says no we need to pass what we have now, and improve it later. And I need insurance and access to medical preventive care now, not when I am 65. (If I make it till then). Hell I may have to wait anyway, I don't even know which provisions will kick in before I sign out. And will I be able to afford the coverage if I can get it? Being an insurance actuary nightmare and all.
Bottom line will a person with my situation be able to finally get coverage? I am not at all sure, but whatever passes automatically beats what I have got now, which is nothing. There are thousands more like me, and many of them are worse off.
Whatever the progressives decide to do, I hope that they decision is not made out of spitefulness (see Joe Liberman), or political one upman ship, or some kind of drive of ideological purity thing.
Joining forces with the wackadoodle right wing nuts to oppose Obama and the democrats on this just feels wrong on so many levels. Can't you just hear em laughing. And who really would be hurt in the end.
I got a bad feeling it would be me, and the thousands of folks like me.