One of the millions of Republicans who could lose Obamacare has a question for her governor
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/17/1364985/-One-of-the-millions-of-Republicans-could-lose-Obamacare-has-a-question-for-her-nbsp-governorMeet one of the millions of white, employed Southerners who are most likely to lose health insurance if the Supreme Court strikes down the part of Obamacare that provides financial help to customers buying on the federal exchange. She's Erin Meredith, a 37-year-old fifth generation Republican in Texas, who was opposed to Obamacare as just another government handout, she told The Washington Post. Then she got divorced and lost her health insurance. Her job doesn't offer insurance. She was also diagnosed with a rare blood disorder that was leaving her with headaches and fatigue and potentially life-crippling medical bills. At a friend's urging, she checked out Healthcare.gov. For $89 a month, she has coverage.
She has an important question of her state's political leadership in the event the Supreme Court rules against her.
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while in Grad School arguing that the conservative ideology is fundamentally incompatible with (social) justice because of conservatism's focus on "deservedness." I went on to distinguish conservative from liberalism, as follows (summarizing):
It is a core recognition among liberals that "Bad things happen to good people"; in other words, sh!t happens ("anti-deservedness"
. This core belief is selfishly manifested in the liberal's desire to establish and maintain (and pay for through shared taxation) a robust social safety net ... just in case they fall victim to that sh!t happening.
On the other hand, Conservatives do not hold that belief; quite the contrary, the conservative belief in "deservedness" holds that good things are earned through clean living, industriousness, and good decision making, and/but bad things are also earned through the lack of clean living, industriousness, good decision making. Therefore, conservatives refuse to allow themselves to see their needing a social safety net because it would be an admission that they, personal, could fail at the clean living, industriousness, and good decision making that purchases the good stuff. This manifests in their refusal to want any form of social safety net ... and a view that shared taxation is a poor decision, as it will go to the undeserving and detracts from their individual ability to benefit from the fruits of their clean living, industriousness, and good decision making.
(I realize this is a jumbled mess with run on sentences and unexplained gaps ... I'm writing this while in a hurry. I hope people will understand what I'm am saying)
she was loudly opposed to any and everything liberal; but mostly, the federal government's interference in private businesses (regulation - hiss, hiss) and "ObumaCare (hiss, hiss)" ... until she was diagnosed with breast cancer and she had to threaten a lawsuit (at this liberal's urging) for her employer's refusal to provide her with Family Medical Leave (a federal protection).
And then, again, when at the 12 week and one day mark, when she lost her job (and health care insurance), she was able to access insurance through "ObumaCare", at significantly less than she was paying through COBRA.
And how, again, when she is engaged in a lawsuit (in federal court) because her former employer refused to hire her back into an advertised position (that was exactly what she had been doing for the company before her illness) because, "
they) need someone they can count on being there long-term ... who knows when (her) cancer might return?"
Now, she is an activist for liberal causes. (I welcomed her into the boat ... and didn't even remind her that if left to her pre-conversion mindset, there wouldn't be a boat to climb in to.)
Even if he was a wife-beating, cheating, drunk gambler! If she had just stayed in her place, she'd still have coverage!" --- Her fellow heartless republicans
It's so easy to be a Republican when everything is going great.
she hasn't connected that the subsidy that she received that made her health insurance affordable IS "government assistance" ... And so is the program that allowed her, with a pre-existing condition, to get insurance in the first place. 
What she is forgetting is that when she has the deduction taken out of her pay check if she works that money is HER's in MEDICARE and SS, ABBOT and his crew wants to privatize this for outright greed, maybe she should wake-up and really start smelling the coffee and what the republicans in her party are doing to her and its not in her interests and she will probably keep voting against her own interests----go figure
And now that she has seen the everlasting light she should have asked this twit governor why not support a single payer system to really drive down the costs from the insurance companies.
Support and put Washington back in its place, she is the government and just may she should re-read the Constitution and the Pre-Amble, where it basically says that the government is suppose to support the general welfare, prosperity , establish justice for its people not just for the few.
