Please don’t get me wrong. I did not like paying the price, but I definitely can afford it. My whole purpose for relating the experience is in sympathy for people in this country that DO NOT have insurance, or that cannot get past their deductible. Certainly, you must have sympathy for those people as well. By the way, I just threw the line in at the end about “joining the poor” for literary effect.
I hope you will focus on the real message the I am trying to raise about the various “parasites” that plague our less financially privelged citizens—and NOT ON ME.
I nave noticed time and again that the majority of posters here on FR do NOT have any kind of sympathy for those less fortunate.
Mostly, it is either derision for people that are less-well off, for whatever reason ("They should go out and get another job or get education so they can earn more. If they don't, they're lazy and don't deserve help."), or derision...rightfully earned...due to continuing behaviors that cause one to become sick (homosex, drug use, unhealthy habits, etc.).
Sympathy is something very, very rarely seen on this site.
The matter is not that you can afford it. The matter of it is the Principal that neither you or anyone else should be held hostage because of a monopoly.
I was making a point I think you understood.
$650 is a bargain.
Sh' 'Nuff
Also got sympathy for those on FR who don't have nearly the disposable income but who donate regularly because they recognize their responsibility to the cause....while many who can well afford it like to carry on w/o investing themselves...