http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/27/1367431/-Uninsured-wing-nut-anti-Obamacare-ex-sheriff-raising-money-for-medical-nbsp-bills?detail=email
Ah, life.
Former Arizona county sheriff Richard Mack, a fierce opponent of Obamacare and a leader in the "constitutional sheriff" movement, is struggling to pay his medical bills after he and his wife each faced serious illnesses. The former sheriff and his wife do not have health insurance and started a GoFundMe campaign to solicit donations from family and friends to cover the costs of their medical care. […]
"The States do not have to take or support or pay for Obamacare or anything else from Washington DC. The States are not subject to federal direction," he wrote on his website, outlining how state governments can block President Obama.
That was Mack then. This is Mack now."Since it appears that recovery will take a good deal of time with associated expenses, I struggle to not feel stress—both the stress of thinking about huge hospital and other medical bills as well as regular living expenses while I am unable to work—and also the stress of not being able to accomplish what I am so passionate about doing for others," Mack wrote in a note on his GoFundMe page. "It is difficult and humbling to say that we need your help, but we do."
Because I am a human being, I hope that Mack and his wife recover. Hell, I even hope they find enough like-minded people willing to spend their own money to help them in their time of great need. Because being a human being should mean believing that we should help one another. One way of doing that, I'd gently point out to Mack, is to join with the rest of society in buying health insurance, which creates great big pools of people paying into a system that takes care of everyone.
sometimes LIFE seems to take on a life of it's own and it serves more of a moral compass then anything else. it tends to slap us the hardest when we are arrogant and deny it's influences in our lives, willing to deny others and make yourself literally the decider of who lives or dies tends to irk LIFE the most it's like LIFE takes it as a thumb in it's eye of existence and it teaches us that there are real rules to coexistence with the rest of the world and LIFE itself.
can't help but wonder if enough people do come through and spare him and his wife will he go back to who he was before LIFE pulled his coat? we get real humble when we draw the short straw and after cheating the outcome we tend to find that path that we were on before and continue in our former footsteps.
this from my friend Gloria "why doesn't he just get ObamaCares since there is no pre-existing clauses anymore why does he prefer to suffer and burden friends and relatives when the answer is at the feet of his denial, damn good question he'd rather beg and be a nuisance than just get the healthcare?
this from my friend Gloria "why doesn't he just get ObamaCares since there is no pre-existing clauses anymore why does he prefer to suffer and burden friends and relatives when the answer is at the feet of his denial, damn good question he'd rather beg and be a nuisance than just get the healthcare?
