Hey to all you loud, obnoxious, assholes at town hall meetings across the country

I doubt anyone will read this since this blog is just one of millions that nobody reads and I doubt that anyone will care.  Besides, I wasn’t organized by a shadowy lobbyist group for the health care industry and I don’t strap on guns and carry Obama-is-a-Nazi signs to Congressional town hall meetings.  But I’m going to add my voice to all the other  obnoxious voices unable to understand reasonable debate.  Somebody out there has to speak for the 50 million Americans who have absolutely no voice in this discussion about health care reform.

I am one of those 50 million Americans without any health insurance.  And let me qualify that by saying that I am not an illegal immigrant (I was born and bred in the United States–and one of the lower 48 to boot!), I’m not a deadbeat, homeless person looking for a hand out–hell, no!  I’m a hardworking, tax-paying, law-abiding citizen, and voter who just finished a grad school program and now spends every day of her life looking for a job.  And despite all the success and hard work I’ve put into everything I do I feel pretty damned insecure.  You see, every time I have a little sniffle or a headache, I think to myself:  I can’t get sick because I can’t pay for it.  For the record, I’ve had full-time employment with health-insurance before and I thought that was pretty awesome until I got sick or had surgery, or just had a routine check-up and discovered all the things my private health insurer would not cover. And even with a full-time salaried job I still worred about being able to pay my rent or afford to have the care I need when I get sick.  I’m sure I’m not alone with this worry.  Insurance is not very ensuring, is it?

I know there is a question about whether health care is a right, and I will say unequivocally as someone without it, yes,  it is.  The right to be healthy, happy–you know the pursuit of happiness, lies in not being strapped down by inhuman medical debts.  My parents have health insurance through my dad’s job, but my mom got really, really sick last year and almost died.  My parents are thousands of dollars in debt now.   My mom’s health isn’t all that great and she shouldn’t have to work, yet she has to in order to pay off her medical bills.  Corporations should not be allowed to proft off of things that other people can not control–you know, like getting sick.  When people die every year because they don’t have health insurance and therefore can’t afford to see a doctor, that is most certainly a question of basic human rights.  We pride ourselves on being the greatest, and most just country in the world.  Yet, I don’t see that when the attitude of many of us is: ‘Oh you don’t have health insurance, you don’t have a job?  Well, I do, so it sucks to be you.’ 

Full disclosure, I have voted Democrat in the last couple of elections and I know that means I’m a Communist-Fascist-Feminazi-Whore for Satan who wants to take your guns and force you in front of a government death panel to be euthanized and then make your family pay for all of my abortions, so I’m not going to hold your hand and sing kumbaya or pray with you or whatever.  No, I’m going to tell you that you need to get your head out of your asshole and think about what health care reform really means.  How about instead of getting your information from some talking head on Fox News, you read the actual proposal?  See for yourself what it’s all about.  I understand your hatred for the government.  Your hatred for the government equals my hatred for corporations that essentially get to control my health care decisions.  I understand your worry about becoming Russia or whatever powerless former Socialist country you’re so scared of–but trust me, there is nothing in the health care reform that Pres. Obama is talking about that even comes close to that godless nation geographically situated on top of us–you know, Canada.

Health care reform is essential because the system is broken and is going to get worse–to the point where all the old people are going to lose their Medicare and only Bill Gates will be able to afford health insurance.  Before you start griping about your taxes, just think how much worse it will be when 50 percent of your income will be spent on your health care.

And do me a favor, until I get a job with health benefits, please, please, please cover your mouth and nose when you cough and sneeze around me.