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Hobson's Choice: Health or Family

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George Bush would hate this video.

American baby boomers who are approaching retirement might assume there will be medical and economic safety nets for them if they're disabled or have a chronic illness -- or even if they're well now but suffer a sudden health catastrophe later on. I'm the "canary in the mine," providing an early indicator that until we have universal health-care coverage, there's no guarantee that there will be a safety net for everyone who needs one.

I'm a former high-tech executive, only 63 years old but "retired" in 2002 by multiple sclerosis. Because access to affordable health care is spotty across the U.S., in 2006 I had to move more than 2,000 miles away from my family and the home I loved to obtain the medical resources and economic supports I need.

The terrible "Hobson's Choice" I was forced to make could be yours.
MBlake

5 responses // Hobson's Choice: Health or Family

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    Thanks,

    The health care safety net in the US is like falling 53,000 feet into an empty swimming pool.

    In Texas where I live; I have had to spend over $24,000 this year alone. With Insurance from the "Texas Risk Pool" as no private insurer will touch anyone that is not 100% low risk.

    2 Boys in College a disabled wife and a contract labor job. Thanks for the Help King George II.

    If you or one you love get's sick.....Welcome to Post Middle Class America.

    Oh well what should I have expected from a court appointed President and his 6 years of a puppet congress.

    Economy_Stupid_II
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    Thank you. Tell Al Gore?

    spoon
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    Yep, I did, spoon.

    MBlake
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    Thank you Marcia for a video that goes right to the point!

    Re Al (spoon's comment): we can't wait for him to "save" us. He's already done what he can. Now EVERYBODY has to do something...this gets back to Marcia's point about "any humans".

    juliannechat
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    Access to good affordable health care has become a dream for a large percentage of Americans. Too many people will not realize what a time- and money-sucking whirlpool our health system has become until they are caught in it themselves. This is not an easy problem to fix, but those who have the power to fix it have little interest. We need to make it clear to our government and elected officials that Americans have the right to affordable health care and the right to live our lives with dignity. This should not be a country of "haves" and "have nots." This is America, and we deserve better than the health care morass we have now! Call or write your congressional representatives. Tell them this is an issue they must put at the top of their priority list. Keep writing--drive the message into their heads!

    patricianm

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