Obamacare and Me
I have health insurance. I probably wouldn't have health insurance were it not for the Affordable Care Act. My room-and-board bill after eleven days in the hospital back in January, 2011, was $145,000. That's for the bed and the sheets and the cleaning staff and the food and the aides and the nurses. It doesn't include any of the tests, procedures, materials, surgeries, anesthesia, physicians, therapists, or consultations. It cost that much for me to sleep there... though I didn't do much sleeping, if the truth be told. I was lucky. My costs were covered by several government programs which come into play when you are shot standing ten feet from your Congresswoman. That's called "participation in a federally protected activity" and interfering with my participation in that activity is the reason the shooter is spending twenty of his 140-years-after-his-seven-life-sentences in a Federal penitentiary. Getting shot is never a good idea. If it's g...