Thanks to Brainwrap for his great diary and the many updates seen here great story He tells us about the die hard Republican in SC who was just too darn proud to get insurance under the ACA. Or maybe it was too darn disgusted with it because it was put in place by the Democrats and that Socialist, Kenyan , Marxist Dictator, President who was too weak to lead. Whatever the reason he wouldn't do it now he is sick and he ran through all his savings paying for his medical bills. His stay at home wife, who lives with him in their $300,000.00 plus house demands he go to the head of the line for treatment, for free apparently because they have no more money and he isn't working because he is too ill to work.
So They started a Go Fund Me page for their medical bills. The liberals stepped up because the far right has better causes like Pizza Parlors still to save and other hate filled people to coddle. They have over $5000.00 already in just a couple of days. Now why does this piss me off ? Because this asshole, who flat out refused to take insurance when he was told he had to buy it by law, is now demanding that we pay for him to get treated and keep him in the style to which he has become accustomed. What a bunch of BS. I have close to $20,000.00 in unpaid medical bills. I work full time and have insurance and play by the rules. I had a fusion from L3 down and I still go to work. In fact I was back at work within 3 months of having my fusion. Too bad I was still in a lot of pain because I missed work too many days and had used up all of my FMLA time so my old company fired me. Well I have a new job. It's decent. I make about $33,000.00 a year before taxes come out. I have decent insurance. A 90/10 plan but it has a $2400.00 deductible with an additional $1000.00 drug deductible. Most years I hit maximum out of pocket at $5000.00. So each year I have to find $5000.00 bucks I don't have to keep my doctors happy and keep them treating me. My wonderful wife has been out of work for close to 7 years. This is after they shipped her job over seas to India. That was at the start of the economic downturn. She couldn't find a job so she went to school to better her chances. Nope that didn't work. She finally found work recently. So we are slowly paying the medical bills. We have no money for a new car. Our current car is 12 years old and has multiple issues. We can't afford to get the AC fixed so lately most days it has been 80 odd degrees in the house all day. The water heater is 12 years old and I am praying it hangs on until we can find some cash to replace it. We don't even have a couch or chairs on our living room. We sold them to pay a bill a couple of years ago.
So this jerk in his $300,000.00 house and his over entitled wife wants us to pay his bills. Where the hell is my help ? Why can't she get a job ? Is she just too entitled to even think of going to work ? No instead of that she is demanding he go to the head of the line for treatment and wanting the rest of us to pay his bills. That is like someone who cuts off his own hand complaining that he can't use it any more. This is a self inflicted wound by a stubborn Republican who thought he would always have some way out in an emergency. What makes it even worse is that he still blames Obama and the democrats for this mess he got himself into. Meanwhile, I am busting my ass, going to work every day. Working OT when I can to try and pay my medical bills. We are living from paycheck to paycheck. We don't have 10 grand in savings for an emergency. We don't have a $300,000.00 house and my wife has to work. She can't choose to stay home and not work. Heck we don't even have 2 TVs in the house. Yet they can get $5 grand from strangers to pay their medical bills. I can't get $10 from strangers for mine.
I played by the rules. He thumbed his nose at the rules and deliberately chose to not obey. He chose to put himself at risk by not getting insurance. Funny thing he is now he is the perfect poster boy for Single Payer. Yet he doesn't see it that way. He seems to think all of his problems are the direct result of President Obama and the ACA. His wife is an over entitled, lazy woman whom seems to think the world will continue to save her and her husband from their own dumb ass mistakes. I say let them fall. Let's see what happens when he has to sell his house and his wife has to work to help pay the bills. Let's see how he feels when he is the prime example of a taker by his Republican friends and those Republican politicians he voted into office. I bet he won't change his views one little bit. If he gets through this with all of his bills paid by everyone else he will crow about how he is a true American, paying his own way. Yeah he paid it by begging and whining until strangers stepped up and gave him money. The only difference between him and the guy on the exit ramp of the highway is he dresses nicer and has a house to go home to.