Oy, msbelle, I wish I could do something to help.

You should send the story of this whole episode to all your state and national representatives so they KNOW what private health insurance is really doing!

IOmeN, I think my interview went well yesterday. Everyone was nice and I hope impressed. Too hard to read. Iowa peeps are so nice to me. Keeping fingers crossed.

I sure hope things go as well as they can msbelle. I'm sorry you are having so much stress on top of stress.

I just got a letter from my House Rep that I wrote to about health care. He can't support a system that would "put federal bureaucrats between you and your doctor".

At least this way, I can have the pleasure of tearing up the letter.

He can't support a system that would "put federal bureaucrats between you and your doctor".

What a fucking hypocrite. Where exactly does he get his health insurance from?

Guess he doesn't need your vote.

I am tempted to e-mail him again, yell at him for spouting canned talking points at me, and tell him the story of this person I know who's having trouble getting insurance to cover a visit to the ER for her child.

He can't support a system that would "put federal bureaucrats between you and your doctor".

It's the disingenuous arguments that really bother me. I doubt your house rep is really so clueless as to think that corporate bureaucrats aren't already involved in health care decisions.

There was also something in the letter about how we should give people the opportunity to get health care through their job if they're not already covered. I suppose if you don't work, for whatever reason, you don't deserve health care.

Mine said "We have the best healthcare in the world." How fifties.

My Representative is Paul Broun. [link] Needless to say, I have not bothered to write to him. The man is a nutbucket. And, oddly, a doctor.