Name:   copperline - Subject:   Wishful thinking Date:   6/12/2015 6:03:57 PM

Reality?  Let's try a thought experiment together.   I have a brother in law who has terminal cancer, can't work due to chemo, a wife with no job skills, and a small child.   If the ACA is dismantled as you wish, he will have no insurance and could endure a grizzly death before he finishes the Medicare waiting period.  His wife will be further impoverished and vulnerable.  He will be reduced to begging for his life.

You have a brother who lives in a completely government funded nursing facility, whose care might only cost a couple of hundred thousand dollars a year if it was provided at privately home.

Imagine both men are about to lose their health care because, as a nation, we don't think they deserve the support of a government program.   If that were to happen, where would you stand on the issue?

The point is simple.  While I would never begrudge your brother the assistance and care he receives from my tax dollars, my brother in law deserves no less concern or compassion from you.   My wife certainly believes her brother is worth the same as yours.  The same goes for all the people who need health insurance and can only find it thru the ACA.

If someone's station in life allows them to  feel immune to the problem, it's easy to be aloof & cavalier when it comes to issues like national health care.  It's only when the issue strikes closer to home... becomes personal.... that those people decide it's important to care.

That's reality.