David Axelrod’s plea for money received this morning.
Yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling was very personal to me.
Thirty years ago, my daughter Lauren, then just seven months old, began having grand mal seizures. They wouldn’t stop for 18 years.
Lauren’s epilepsy robbed her of her childhood, some of her capacities and, very nearly, her life.
We were young parents then, just starting out, with lousy insurance I got from my job. And we very nearly went broke paying for Lauren’s uncovered care and medication.
I was moved to tears when the Supreme Court affirmed the Affordable Care Act, because I know that other families won’t have to face the terror and heartache we knew.
And that’s because of a president who had the courage to defy the politics and all the obstacles in order to fight for people like my Lauren.
Say you’re standing with President Obama:
http://my.barackobama.com/Yesterday
- David
No they won't, because their "Laurens" will go straight to the death panels.
You couldn’t be more wrong.
My god-daughter, a beautiful and bright child was diagnosed with epilepsy at age 3. She had mals, grand mals with several episodes daily for 15 years continuing to today. Throughout that time she had the best care money could buy. Her parents were still heart broken and they devoted themselves to her treatment and what little happiness they could bring her.
Her condition was not made better by her parent’s strong health coverage because epilepsy is not curable and it is not always successfully treated.
So your blaming your troubles on lack of access to better health coverage is misguided. Even if you had better coverage it would have made no difference.
Sorry to be so harsh but there are plenty of resources out there for parents that have this tragic condition come into their lives.
Obamacare would have done nothing for your daughter.
In case you didn’t know, you live in one of the most taxed countries in the world where everything you purchase is inflated in price by at least 30% by federal taxation. The heavy tax and regulatory burden on you and your fellows leaves job opportunities scarce and forces jobs to be taken overseas.
I suggest you focus on what makes the government more efficient and more limited. Growing government and making them pay our bills leads to insolvency and downgrading. Obamacare has been tried in many socialist countries and the result is always the same, the health providers find ways to turn people away, throw pills at people or schedule people for appointments months out. Obamacare will be no different. But Obamacare will make the US healthcare system worse by eliminating alternatives. We will have our choice of poor quality healthcare or worse.