Reply #70: Well, try being a self-employed 55-year-old and see [View All]

[Lydia Leftcoast]

what kind of health care you can afford: pay three figures a month for coverage WITH a $1000 deductible and only 80% coverage after that. I have to pay nearly $4000 out of pocket before I gain ANY benefit from my health insurance.

Meanwhile, my mother has to wait 2 months for a cataract operation, and she has good health coverage, between Medicare and the retirement coverage from my father's former employment. I helped her write checks last week (due to her eyes), and she was paying less than $10 each for procedures which, judging by the pre-insurance totals on the bills and my deductible, would have cost me hundreds of dollars each.

I'm glad your friends are so lucky in your health care. Some of us are not, and it has to do with age, occupation, and geographical location. These disparities should not exist and would not exist in a CIVILIZED country that cared about something other than macho displays of military might.

By the way, what kinds of Canadians would move to Texas anyway? Must be wealthy Alberta conservatives.