Reply #64: Not sure who you're addressing, but nothing "happened" except a full physical.

[Atman]

My wife made me do it. LOL! She's a great woman, and like most men, I probably wouldn't have had the physical if she hadn't made the appointment. But while I was sitting there nekkid waiting for the doc to give me an anal probe, it really occurred to me how fortunate I am -- at the moment. I've got a job I love which provides excellent health insurance for both me and my wife, and even our son in college. Just as a side note, I work for the Democrats (not the party itself, a Democratic ad agency). But that's not going to protect me.

It's a good company, but I'm the oldest guy there. I could be laid off just like anyone else. My physical could have turned up something wrong. Then what? I was actually trepidatious about the physical for that reason alone...what if? What if I wound up with the proverbial "pre-existing condition?" At 52, it's pretty unlikely I'll land another sweet job with great bennies. But at least I could do something else, hopefully get on my wife's insurance, and know there'd be Medica...oops. Not if the GOP has it's way. I'd get a voucher and a kick in the ass.

It's madness what the GOP is doing, and they're doing a fantastic job, along with their co-conspirators in the media, selling this bullshit as truth. A couple of years ago I would have had some faith that Obama would stand up to them. Now, I have a bad feeling about what is about to happen. Kind of like that anal probe I got yesterday.