Reply #20: Sometimes I feel like I'm on Mars..either me or WP reporters! [View All]

[Rose Siding]

All I know is that for the first time in our 50 years, my husband and I are going to be without health insurance. I can't even believe we're considering it...I feel so guilty because we'll end up contributing to the problem if we fall ill.

We've paid the premiums -more than our rent and almost 3Xs what it was in 2000- for as long as we can. We held out hope that a Dem in the WH *might* help us see light at the end of the tunnel. The last hike ate past any margin of "disposable" income and chiseling away, just to get by, at an emergency savings that would carry us for 3 or 4 months if we needed it is making us crazy.

I KNOW there are repubs in the same boat; most of the BIBLE BELT is in the same boat! WhatEVER is it that doesn't extend their "morality" far enough to care for their families?