Reply #41: K&R... [View All]

[Iowa]

The impact of the health care fiasco in this country isn't limited to the poor. A great many are impacted. Example: If you check out some of the early retirement groups, you'll see that access to health care is the biggest concern by far. Some go without insurance altogether; and these are millionaires!

Another example: College students covered by their parents' insurance... Did you know that if you become too sick to attend classes, that your insurance company will drop you at precisely the time you need health care? You'll be sick, without insurance, and your parents will faced with either paying all of your medical bills (in addition to paying exorbitant health insurance premiums), buying a second policy for you through COBRA, or leaving you without health care altogether. One student, who was deathly ill with cancer, kept going to classes against medical advice so she could remain on her parents' policy. She died.

After the death of Pope Clement in 1268, the cardinals couldn't agree on a Pope. So the citizens of the city restricted them to bread and water and tore the roof off the palace in which they were residing. They elected a Pope in short order. The people should do that with our do-nothing Congress... lock them into a building without a roof in the middle of a hot summer in DC, provide them with bread and water, and keep them there until they either fix the health care mess, or until they die of natural causes - whichever comes first.