Reply #25: I have already voted for Edwards but I appreciate your kind words and civil discourse. [View All]

[saracat]

The concern my husband and myself have with Obama is the large amount of money he has taken from the pharmaceutical companies.Hillary has done the same.As Edwards said ," It is almost impossible to not take that into consideration" .Both these candidates can parse and make noises that "sound" like they want to offer a solution to the health care crisis but sadly, I don't believe them. Obama already talks of "selling' out by compromise which is a hell of a way to bargain with these entities and Hillary has already sold out to them before.As John said, if the lobbyists didn't influence the out come of health care, we would have had it already.No there is not much to give me confidence that either will really DO anything except maybe the merest band aid.Barack certainly worked with the Industry in Illinois and certainly caved then.And he stated right in his speech after Iowa, that he would guarantee the Insurance and pharma companies and well as other corporations a"seat at the table". John was the only one who would have smacked them down as he had nothing to lose.

As for my condition, it isn't a big deal.I have other stuff that is worse. I have a condition that only one doctor can treat and I have to fly to Chicago 4 times a year and get a shot in order for me to be able to speak at all! It costs us about $5000 ayear for the trips in addition to %700 a month for heath insurance.If I took all the prescriptions my doctor thinks I should take, it would be well over $200 a month.So I skip some. I am not old enough for medicare and not poor enough for Medicaid.Not much we can do but as my husband says , try to make more money!

John gave us "hope' because he was a "fighter".As my husband says, "he might not have been able to deliver everything he promised but by God, we would have known he tried.
This is also personal for us as we got to know John, and began to consider him a friend and you learn to trust your friends,we trusted John.

Hope this isn't too long winded but I felt I needed to respond.