"Hell Yeah!" I've Got Obama Care!"
Thank God my wife has Obama Care. She now pays a meager 60 bucks a month for health insurance. Can you imagine health insurance that cheap? Heck no, you can’t! There’s just one problem, the closest doctor is 70 miles away, and he isn’t taking any new patients. So she’s shit out a luck. But, she has health insurance, even if she can’t use it.
There are some other goodies, too. She can have a free checkup and a mammogram once a year. Well, they’re not exactly free, since she pays about 700 dollars a year for what should cost one tenth that. Here’s the real catch, though, any follow up that might be necessary, isn’t covered. That means that she can find out if she has cancer, but she can’t do a damned thing about it if she actually has it, because the deductible is so high. And, let me stress, that’s with the famed Obama subsidy. If anything else pops up, health wise, it’s off to the emergency room for her, where the cost of an aspirin is about 50 dollars and the cost of a Kleenex is even higher.
Now, healthcare costs weren’t always so out of control, but they damned-well got that way after the government got deeply involved in the healthcare biz about a half century ago. Ever since, costs have skyrocketed like….well…..an actual skyrocket, just like they have with government subsidized college tuition's. Sure, greed is a factor, but stupid is a much bigger factor—and, there is no shortage of stupid—even if there is a very predictable shortage of doctors.
So, I just wanted to say thanks to all my Leftist friends for this great benefit. And, that if anything happens to my wife, that could’ve been avoided without this wonderful, mandatory benefit, I’ll be coming for your sorry asses. I just thought you might want to know.
Mark Magula
There are some other goodies, too. She can have a free checkup and a mammogram once a year. Well, they’re not exactly free, since she pays about 700 dollars a year for what should cost one tenth that. Here’s the real catch, though, any follow up that might be necessary, isn’t covered. That means that she can find out if she has cancer, but she can’t do a damned thing about it if she actually has it, because the deductible is so high. And, let me stress, that’s with the famed Obama subsidy. If anything else pops up, health wise, it’s off to the emergency room for her, where the cost of an aspirin is about 50 dollars and the cost of a Kleenex is even higher.
Now, healthcare costs weren’t always so out of control, but they damned-well got that way after the government got deeply involved in the healthcare biz about a half century ago. Ever since, costs have skyrocketed like….well…..an actual skyrocket, just like they have with government subsidized college tuition's. Sure, greed is a factor, but stupid is a much bigger factor—and, there is no shortage of stupid—even if there is a very predictable shortage of doctors.
So, I just wanted to say thanks to all my Leftist friends for this great benefit. And, that if anything happens to my wife, that could’ve been avoided without this wonderful, mandatory benefit, I’ll be coming for your sorry asses. I just thought you might want to know.
Mark Magula