Thanks to the support of Rep. John Salazar, I am cautiously optimistic that I will be able to purchase real health insurance (not just catastrophic) in the next year or so. I am self-employed and have no insurance.
The absolute need for this has been brought home within the last two weeks as my wife of 22 years was diagnosed with breast cancer. Jane is a few years older than I am and is on Medicare. I have no medical insurance. Jane also has rhumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia, which already costs most of her own Social Security income to treat, hundreds of dollars out-of-pocket per month. Thank goodness for good old government Medicare Disability. But now we will have the massive costs of cancer treatment on top of everything. I am healthy –– for now. And very lucky.
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Health care reform is costly. But what is the price of human lives?
Thomas Wills
Hotchkiss
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