Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Mitt Romney...he made me sick

There is an ad running in Colorado on behalf of Pres. Obama’s reelection that is  an  opportunity to make a point it besides the one it intended. It underscores the fear that loss of a job means loss of health care and the lesson is that health care reform would eliminate that fear.  The ad features an older woman with Parkinson’s like symptoms who said that when Bain capital (Mitt Romney’s firm) bought the profitable company for which she had worked for many years, she lost her health insurance and pension, even though she was 2 and a half years from retiring.  The punch line: “Mitt Romney…….he made me sick”. The point: Romney did not care about the damage his brand of capitalism caused to human beings. As we wait for the Supreme Court’s decision on the Affordable Health Care Act (“Obamacare” to the disaffected),  we should also  understand that if the woman had lost her employer provided health insurance and income, she could have received health care she could afford even if she had a pre-existing condition if ‘obamacare’ were in effect.  That fear…loss of job means loss of health care.. is  a fundamental dread  to those who face a job loss or change and that advantage of health care reform is rarely highlighted or understood.  

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