Republican plan to eliminate Medicare

[timmgirvan]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

It's my fault because I got sick and was forced into early retirement? Believe me, I'd work if I could. and since I'm only 64, I get no insurance, meds and dr visits come out of my pocket. I'm not complaining, got it better than lots of folks but fact is not everything in life goes as one expects!

Somer: you should look into SSDI! I did and am drawing enough to help out alot.......before that I was at the poverty level. I used Binder and Binder.

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by timmgirvan

Somer: you should look into SSDI! I did and am drawing enough to help out alot.......before that I was at the poverty level. I used Binder and Binder.

Timm, I looked pretty much at everything. If I get sick and the doctor puts me in the hospital (which happened dec 09), Medical Asst kicks in and pays most of the hospital bills, but otherwise, they say I make too much ($1061 a month is too much). I got IHEAP to help with heating bills and $16 a month in food stamps but otherwise nada. Like I said, I'm not complaining, other folks are far worse off, but I'm not driving around in a new caddy like some seem to think.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

Timm, I looked pretty much at everything. If I get sick and the doctor puts me in the hospital (which happened dec 09), Medical Asst kicks in and pays most of the hospital bills, but otherwise, they say I make too much ($1061 a month is too much). I got IHEAP to help with heating bills and $16 a month in food stamps but otherwise nada. Like I said, I'm not complaining, other folks are far worse off, but I'm not driving around in a new caddy like some seem to think.

And that this type of thing can occur in "the richest country in the world" is appalling.

I don't want "the government" to "pay for freeloaders". But there are indeed ways for we citizens as a country - for our goverment - to make sure everyone in the country can purchase good, complete healthcare and pay their own way.

The Republicans want to do the opposite.

[hi_im_god]

Originally Posted by timmgirvan

Somer: you should look into SSDI! I did and am drawing enough to help out alot.......before that I was at the poverty level. I used Binder and Binder.

my head just exploded.

i feel the way you would if you found out my dad was a pastor and paid all my bills. and i let him. while maintaing my staunch non-theist beliefs.

[timmgirvan]

Originally Posted by hi_im_god

my head just exploded.

i feel the way you would if you found out my dad was a pastor and paid all my bills. and i let him. while maintaing my staunch non-theist beliefs.

if only...

[hi_im_god]

Originally Posted by timmgirvan

if only...

that won't actually happen but maybe i'll get esophageal cancer. apparently it's the aids of atheists.

[timmgirvan]

Originally Posted by hi_im_god

that won't actually happen but maybe i'll get esophageal cancer. apparently it's the aids of atheists.

bitterness will make you sick

[hi_im_god]

Originally Posted by timmgirvan

bitterness will make you sick

actually it only makes you bitter.

lucky for you no one really dies of smugness either.

[timmgirvan]

Originally Posted by hi_im_god

actually it only makes you bitter.

lucky for you no one really dies of smugness either.

read a book....you can get sick if you are bitter. leads to alot of complications

I have no idea what you're talking about as to the smugness comment

[Mike]

Originally Posted by hi_im_god

that won't actually happen but maybe i'll get esophageal cancer. apparently it's the aids of atheists.

I have a personal interest in this, as I was born with my esophagus growing into my right lung(instead of my stomach). I spent the first two years of my life in Boston's Children's Hospital. No skin graft in 1962, they simply detached and stretched the esophagus, sewing it into my stomach. During those two years I had a lot of tears and pinhole leaks, and some pneumonia and extreme fever that got me some early Last Rites by a Catholic priest.

Used to run 5 miles a day, was an amateur boxer, etc, but two years ago(at the age of 46) everything began to unravel. I have near constant choking and coughing, and am experiencing the loss of the functioning I did have for the 44 years before. I don't have cancer, but I will miss eating. Seems the time to revert to being tube fed is coming faster than I thought

Sure could use my Pool 2 future wager exacta of The Factor/Astrology to come to fruition

[timmgirvan]

Originally Posted by Mike

I have a personal interest in this, as I was born with my esophagus growing into my right lung(instead of my stomach). I spent the first two years of my life in Boston's Children's Hospital. No skin graft in 1962, they simply detached and stretched the esophagus, sewing it into my stomach. During those two years I had a lot of tears and pinhole leaks, and some pneumonia and extreme fever that got me some early Last Rites by a Catholic priest.

Used to run 5 miles a day, was an amateur boxer, etc, but two years ago(at the age of 46) everything began to unravel. I have near constant choking and coughing, and am experiencing the loss of the functioning I did have for the 44 years before. I don't have cancer, but I will miss eating. Seems the time to revert to being tube fed is coming faster than I thought

Sure could use my Pool 2 future wager exacta of The Factor/Astrology to come to fruition

Mike: I am truly sorry to hear about your condition. I can't imagine what you're going through.

[Mike]

Thanks, Tim

Oddly enough, I started reading and listening to Christopher Hitchens just about the time that he was diagnosed with cancer. He earned his cancer(if you can say such a thing) thru heavy hard liquor consumption and cigarettes, whereas my condition was with me from the start. I never smoked (cigarettes) but have, being a good Irish-Catholic, drank my fair share of quality beer

I'm a single dad now(kids are 10 and 12), so I am worried about the possibility of fairly quick death due to aspiration pneumonia. But, I can do a lot of things to be healthier, and may live for another twenty years

BTW, that Astrology/The Factor exacta from Pool 2 pays about $7,000!

[Riot]

Originally Posted by hi_im_god

my head just exploded.
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Wow. Yes. Timmi, we never knew ya