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Where on any street in Texas are people are dying like flies? There are none. That is because physicians, nurses, medical people of all stripes, hospitals...all step up and see to it the work that needs to be done. Thank you will be enough for me. I am a surgeon. I have never, ever, not once turned away a patient because they could not pay. Not once. But that old refrain...THANK YOU....does not seem to materialize....F**K YOU....is what comes from Obama and Roberts, Reid and Pelosi.

The Affordable Care Act is to expensive....we cannot afford it. This escapade will not end well. No one is talking about the loss of Freedom and Liberty. No one in the government. We may have one chance left. My assessment is that for all of the parameters to gel together timely for a decent result is very unlikely. Texas should tell Obama to stick it where the coliforms grow and the parasites whistle all day. Folks you might just as well move to Greece with the wisdom of the leadership in this country.

About eight years ago my mother (a single, middle-aged woman) suddenly became very ill. She hadn’t been working at her job long enough to have insurance.

As her illness took it’s toll, she ended up losing her job. She just didn’t have the energy to get to work. She was having ‘panic attacks’ several times a day and her heart would race at over 200 BPM.

I paid to fly her down to move in with us. She was sleeping a ton, hysterical when awake, losing her mind, running a fever... something was terribly wrong.

No insurance. Too young for medicare. Couldn’t get to a dr for tests and a disability diagnosis for medicade because she had no insurance.

I called my family dr (an internal medicine dr) just to ask him for advice.

He told me to bring her in.

Eventually we got help from social services, but - in the meantime - my dr started running tests and got her stabilized.

I will never forget his kindness. His genuine concern for my mom. The look of real worry that he wasn’t going to be able to save her. He ran every test that he could and didn’t say anything about money. He was ready to eat every dime personally to save this woman he didn’t even know.

G-d bless doctors like you and him! On behalf of everyone who didn’t say it, I’ll say it: THANK YOU.

(BTW, it was a thyroid storm complicated by liver failure. This was due to taking handfuls of Tylenol every day for years to self-medicate an old back injury. Yes. We found out that 1,500mg of Tylenol taken every four hours for eight consecutive years will kill a liver. Add that to Grave’s Disease and it nearly did her in. She’s fine now. Disabled and a little slow physically, but plucky!)

Where in this world are those who will do medical care for someone who is willing to work off the bill?

My wife needs a hip replacement and has begged to work off the bill after we pay out of our pocket a sum of money to get the ball rolling. She WANTS to be able to go back to work, but cant till she gets that hip fixed.

Let me know if you got any ideas. Till then, she is disabled.