Health Care Reform - Never?

I finally had to cancel my health insurance policy - it was just too expensive for a self-employed person during these recessionary times.

We all know how expensive disease treatment can be. So I will not go in for annual exams or any other preventative screening anymore, because if I were found to have a condition, I would not have adequate resources to seek treatment anyway.

Besides, I would then have a pre-existing condition that would preclude me from ever qualifying for health care. It's quite a predicament for a fifty-plus year old woman to be in.

Luckily, I am the model of health, without any conditions & with perfect 'stats'. But I am as susceptible to getting hit by a truck as the next person.

I am not alone. I number in the tens of millions in this country - people who do not have access to affordable health care.

The United States is the ONLY first world country that does not guarantee health care for their citizens. And the Republicans & Democrats dither about in Congress, caring more for hurting one another than for helping the people they were elected to serve. Shame on them all.