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Originally Posted by ratbastid
dk, I don't get you at all. The current healthcare system has failed you and your wife utterly. Enough so that you're going to have to compromise your principles and get some sort of socialized help. I can really respect that--in my view, the honest man who steals bread to feed his family has made the only move he can make.
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we sometimes bend our principles for those we love, especially when those we love do not have the capabilities to fend for themselves very well. My wife is disabled because of her illness and no insurance company in the world is going to cover her now.
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Originally Posted by ratbastid
But... When asked to put $750 in the pot so the whole thing can work for EVERYONE, no, that's Government Overreaching, and you're willing to be hauled off to prison about it. Actually, prison is the likeliest result, you're WILLING to get yourself shot dead fighting off the people who would come arrest you about it.
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The basic truth of it all is that I do not have an extra $750 to 'put in the pot'. It's barely enough for me to keep her in meds and I usually had to watch her ask her ex-husband to get them every 3 months. That's not a possibility anymore due to other circumstances.
The bottom line, in my mind, is that this 'reform' is wrong headed, and not going to work. Because of that position, I will not comply with it.