Obamacare as I see it.

I can remember a Karaoke site. A friend of mine who was a guitarist talked me into going to this karaoke site to learn how to record my music online. At first they were pretty friendly, but soon I learned how cliquey they were, especially where the black artists were concerned. There weren't many. This should have been my first clue. Anyway I got involved in the contests that were rigged most of the time and it depended who your friends were, whether or not you did well. That seemed to carry over into places like newer sites too, but that's another story.

The great thing about this site was, music was not the only thing that was peoples interests were confined to. Politics was  becoming  popular, and the place was quickly becoming Right Wing. They were not happy when I posted things about George Bush and that administration, but they really didn't pay all that much attention, until one of our black Senators from Illinois decided to run in the democratic party.

Being a democrat, and listening to this man's ideas compared to John McCain and Sarah Palin, and began to have fun with that, much to the chagrin of many members of this little club.

Pretty soon I became isolated and pretty much ignored, but that didn't stop me, and one of the members who worked for a defense contractor got involved in the Teaparty and dragged a few people along with her.

This went on and one of the members, Andrew tried to convince me when the bottom of the stock market dropped out, that everything was going to be alright. I knew better. Bush and Cheney were idiots. I had kids to put through college and almost everything I had invested in was gone.

My daughters health got worse. She was an apnea kid, and had asthma and it was hard to keep working and keep her insured. If it wasn't for Obama, we wouldn't had a prayer when she left for college. She wanted to be a Speech Pathologist, but they had just passed Obamacare and she was my responsibility until age 25, so we lucked out. My son was unable to find decent employment so I was able to keep him on my insurance until age 23, and ended up getting him his own insurance. The same with my daughter who went to school two extra years. The financial strain got worse, and I was laid off, and went to work for the AFL-CIO as a counselor for peers that I was laid off with. What these people went through was an entirely different story, and it was hard to find them jobs, and the republicans made it worse by declining to educate them when they came in and picked the wrong field, and the republican business owners wouldn't pay for their educations. It made the job very difficult. Not everyone wanted to be a nurse or a truck driver. Now that the republicans are dominate over house, my friends at the unemployment office are being laid off and the employee assistance organizations are paying to try to get Obama re-elected, and have shut down operations.

So now...We were all lucky enough to be called back to work after they moved all of our jobs to Texas, and Obamacare was passed, and now I have been lucky enough to get cancer. However, Now that Obamacare is in, it looks like my out of pocket will be very limited, and these expensive treatments will be picked up by the insurance company. Before...We would have been stuck with the entire bill, and I would have to forgo treatment. So...Don't tell me about Obamacare...It's pulled me out of a hard place twice now. And if you have a job and insurance, Thank a democrat. Because with the McCain administration everything would have stayed status quo, and you would have nothing.