This woman makes over 37,000 per year.
She can pay for her own damn insurance.
My husband and I pay over $300 a month for our insurance and I pay an additional $100 for medicare.
We live on a fixed retirement income which is lower than her income.
Why should she have state help when we don’t? We had to move out of CA because we couldn’t afford to live there. My kids all live there and I had to give up being close to them in order to live on our income.
Duh!! We all have had to make hard choices.
Where's baby daddy? Oh that's right, the taxpayer is her husband.
She has subsidized housing as well. If her kid did not have TWO $1200 CAT scans? Unreal!
Other taxpayers should pay for endless freebies.
The libs chase away the two largest WEALTH creators in this country - manufacturing and energy production. These two things lead to the massive wealth the U.S. had starting from 1949 to around 1970 where the vast bulk of our wealth was created. We are living off of that and the game is pretty much over now.
The time to think about covering your children’s bills, is before you jump in the sack. Find a good man. Develop a relationship. Get married. Live together for a while. When the way is prepared, have kids.
You can’t afford their insurance? Well neither can I. So why are my fellow citizens and I having to pay for them?
You can’t afford their insurance. You can’t afford to house them.
Good grief lady, when it comes time to pay my bills, I can’t sob my way out of them.
Man up! Or Woman up, if you will...
I can’t afford health care insurance for children right now, therefore I haven’t created children of my own.
I can’t afford car insurance for a new Ferrari right now, therefore I haven’t bought myself a Ferrari.
I can’t afford a big house payment right now, therefore I haven’t bought a big new house.
I could go on....
Why do people think they deserve for other people to pay for their decisions?
The problem is that $12 a month she is paying is pretty much all she is paying. I had a friend change from govt. health insurance to private- she called to ask me what a deductible was, because she had never had one. While the rest of us might have co-pays or deductibles that discourage us from frequent unneeded visits, the people on govt. provided insurance do not.
This is exactly one of the reasons gov run health care is a bad idea. Playing ball with friends, going for walks, getting involved with many activities cost nothing. I bet she has money to buy the boy expensive game systems and plenty of snacks and such. I’m not a lightweight myself but this kind of whining makes me embarrassed for this lady.
Essentially, she’d be uninsured, scrambling to find ways to continue the treatment Thomas gets to control his weight and minimize his risk of diabetes. If he needed two $1,200 CT scans like he did after jumping off a table when he was 3, she’d be cooked.
Regarding the 2 $1,200 CT scans, With 3 kids, no CT scans—kids have had concussions from football, etc. Daughter in car accident—her car totaled ER did no CT scan. My kids fell out of trees, fell down stairs, fell off bikes, etc. but no CT scans. My daughter was in car when my car was rear-ended, totaled—her car seat flew straight up and I did take her in to be checked—I am really wondering a bout need for 2 CT scans—must of been a really tall table!!! Am I wrong about over use of CT scans?
Also if an event occurs where she needs help in a tragic event. I’m sure the community would help her. Why do people assume that the only way to deal with tragic circumstances and unpredictable expense is to rely on the government? I gladly help out friends and family in need on a regular basis. I will not enable them but I have no problem helping someone and there are a lot of Americans like me the only problem is that people don’t want to ask they want to take and not say thank you.
I know it extremely mean spirited and evil of me to suggest, but what if Misty cut out the cable bill, cell phone, trips to fast food places, brown bag it to work and maybe even get a small part time job she could afford the $75.00 a week to pay for her own health care.
Again, I apologize for being so cruel as to expect her to do what 99% of what a conservative would do, but life has became cruel, especially in the land of fruit and nuts where the financial rubber is meeting the road and leaving a huge skid mark
She has TWO kids with a different last name than hers. Presumably there’s a Mr. Bustos somewhere who should be contributing to his kids’ upkeep.
And the 11-yr old is HUGE! No wonder he’s diabetic. What is she feeding him?
Let them get out in the yard and make a vegetable garden. They will get good exercise, grow healthy veggies, and improve their health as they take off the pounds. There is no pill on earth as beneficial as gardening.
This is the emotion-dripping exception to the reality that drives the debate on just about any kind of tax increase/government expansion, or reform of government giveaways.
Misty is in a spot, therefore we all need to give up our health insurance choice and enslave ourselves in a system that will eventually case aside Misty and her kids as quickly as it will sacrifice anyone else under health care rationing.
Let’s do it for Misty.
I don’t know what making 2,880 dollars a month and can barely afford to make the 750 dollar rent payment....something is seriously wrong with this picture. I did not take taxes out of the 2880 dollars because she barely gets any out but to be fair I would bet she takes home 2,500 dollars a month and cannot easily pay 750 in RENT????????
These Sob Stories are always the same, they can’t make a living where they are.
So why don’t they move?
There are many other places where you can make nearly the same money for almost half the cost of living.
I remember I was talking to a lady in San Jose that was living with another person to cover their rent.
I went through her finances and showed her how moving to Washington State would save here about 40% of her income even though she would make a dollar less an hour.
These people don’t know how to make economic decisions, what they need is counseling and not a hand out. They need to move.
Apparently the insurance-paid “treatment” isn’t working — better try some “push-aways.”
I wish I made 18 dollars an hour.