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In reply to the discussion: Biden and Pope Francis team up against cancer [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)health insurance that ordinary people could really afford.
That's my point. I enjoyed that kind of insurance when I lived in Europe for quite a number of years. We need it here. The need for it was brought home to me last night when a friend of mine who is changing jobs told me what it would cost her to have a bronze Obamacare plan. I was horrified. She is older but not old enough for Medicare. We have to do better than that. It is bad enough to lose your job because the young people around you have prettier, healthier looking faces. But it is a terrible fact at the age of 60 something to know that if you do get cancer, you will have to spend down a significant portion of your retirement savings to pay the co-pays for Obamacare's Bronze Plan until you finally reach the magic age at which you qualify for Medicare.
It's tough out here for a lot of people.
More fortunate people don't ever sit down and actually talk to a person who is having a tough financial time. It's as if those people don't exist.
That's one of the things I like about Bernie. If you watch the Rachel Maddow interview with Jane Sanders that is posted here on DU, you will learn that among his constituents, his own Vermont constituents, Bernie is the most popular senator of all senators. That is to say that no other senator is as well liked by his or her constituents as Bernie.
That is to me the most accurate measure of a senator's performance in Congress -- the approval rating of his own constituents for his representation.
Feel the Bern! And I wish Biden would advocate for universal, single-payer, non-profit healthcare. I'm sure the Pope does not realize how difficult access to healthcare can be for poor people, especially certain of our immigrants, in the US.