Reply #128: For me this is a bad bill

[wolfgangmo]

I am one of those people you would classify as saying "fuck you - I ain't getting any.

But for a different reason than you think. I am self employed. I own and run a small primary care medical clinic. I have a pre-existing condition and can't get health care for any cost. But being self employed (but taking home less than any of my employees -hey - they got families and mortgages too so I take home as little as I can so I can keep them employed despite lower revenues lately) I make too much on paper to be considered for a subsidy.

So I, am many (and I daresay most) small company owners, will be left with a simple choice, pay the fine or pay for insurance and I can afford neither.

So what do I do? My clinical director and I have decided to see if we can move the entire clinic and all employees who want to move with us to Canada, where the crime is low, the pay is higher (for the hours worked), and we all have rational health care.

I honestly feel that I have no other option. FYI - my pre-existing condition is a car accident that left me partially paralysed. The reason that I am paralysed is that my insurance company refused to pay for corrective surgery so now I live with constant pain and migraine headaches as well as general periferal neuropathy in my arms and neck.

Pardon me for saying this, but fuck America if it can't get it's shit together enough to care for it's own. This country deserves to die if it can't do that.