A letter to "Teabaggers" abouth Health Care Reform: Ignorance and Selfishishness is No Excuse

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A letter to "Teabaggers" abouth Health Care Reform: Ignorance and Selfishishness is No Excuse
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 11:52am.

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Sun, 13 Dec 2009

This is to all the Tea Party Protesters on Medicare.

Somehow you think that your $98.50 premium pays the entire cost of your medical bills, that it's not a socialized government program. You seem to feel that you "deserve" your medical insurance, the rest of us don't.

More importantly you seem to feel that people like me, a 50 year old who has worked since I was 14 usually at a full time and a part time job is a bum, looking for a hand out. I had health insurance almost all my life till the cost of rose so high that the choice is to be homeless or have a policy-and I'm pretty sure being homeless would disqualify me.

I don't want a hand out, I just wanted health care reform to mean America would go back to the level playing field you all enjoyed. In the 70's, when I was a kid, I know that the health care premium for the whole family was not more than the mortgage, I think it was more than the phone bill but less than the power bill because there were RULES.

Somehow the generation over 65 has missed the news that wages have fallen so I am making the same wage I earned in 1988. At least in 1988 a job still meant a 40 hour week, not 32 0r less as it does now. The worse part is being treated like I'm in this situation because I'm a no good lazy bum.

Lynn Ferguson
Florida

[silverweb]

1. Very well stated.

Maybe it will get through to those who need to hear it most, but somehow I doubt it.