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I hope everything goes well for him and that he has a speedy recovery. Please give him my best.
No one dealing with a serious illness like that should have to worry about paying medical bills on top of everything else. They have enough to deal with as it is. It always burns me up when I hear stories like your brother's. No one should have to go through that.
I'm really glad you're able to help him out but it's not fair that you have to put your own goals for owning a house on hold in order to do that. If we had single-payer, your brother's medical bills would be taken care of and you could continue to shop for a house. But instead, you have to hand over your hard-earned cash so some fat-cat health insurance exec can further pad their wallet. In addition, as you pointed out, forking over your money to the insurance company does precisely squat for the economy.
We need single-payer and we need it now. (And that's coming from someone that has excellent health care and isn't paying much for it, thanks to my bennies at work.) The so-called HCR bills they've been bandying about in Congress are nothing more than handouts to the health insurance execs. What happened to letting people "buy in" to the same plan Congress has? Or the plan to pay for HCR by repealing the tax cuts on the rich? Don't hear much about those ideas any more now, do we? Instead, they give us things like mandates and taxes on the "Cadillac" plans, two things people thought they were voting against when they voted for Obama instead of McCain. (I voted third party so don't blame me. ;) ) The mandate forcing people to buy insurance is straight-out extortion, pure and simple. They need to ditch the bogus bill and give us single-payer. Any one of them that doesn't step forward and demand single-payer needs to be voted out, regardless of which wing of the corporate party they belong to.
In the meantime, we need to elect a governor that is a big advocate for single-payer for MN. I know John Marty is one. Not sure if there are any others (Dayton maybe?).
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