Is my mother one of those Lazy Dirty handout seekers the Conservative complain about?

Question

I am wondering if that is what my mother is. You see she works 40 hours a week in a low paying job. Then Saturday and Sunday she works cleaning business in the afternoons. So she works 7 days a week. She is in need of Health Insurance. She was born with a leaking heart valve, and had ovarian cancer over 30 years ago. Because of this she can not find affordable health insurance. She pays close to $800.0 a month for major medical coverage. It does not pay for any thing until she has over $10,000 in bills for that year Because of this I have to help her with her other living expense.

She does not smoke, she does not drink, and she has never done a drug in her life. She does not get any kind of assistance. She lives well with in her means.

Universal health care would be a wonderful thing to help her out. But I guess she is one of those dirty lazy people that should not be helped.

Look at the compassionate conservatives now!!!

I hope none of you ever have problems beyond your control. Because your compassion will be rewarded. So why is it that if Canada health care is so bad that live longer then us Americans

SM Smith... I work 60 hour a week, and have 3 business 5 employees and pay roughly 33% of my income in taxes. How much do you contribute to our country?

Bruer you are correct about the fact that I am not a friend of the Conservative views. I am not a lier. This is my mothers place in life. She is not old enough for medicare, We live rural so there is not nonprofit hospitals.

My point is not to bash Conservatives "I will save that for my answers to their questions." My point is to show that there is hard working people that thew no fault of their own have a hard time making enough to pay for Insurance and this all or nothing system that we have is not and does not work.

To the person who said that she never made a donation in her life... % wise I am will to say she donates more then 75% of Americans including myself.

Answer 1

Even if bruemaster was right (which I'm not buying) there are many people in the US just like your Mom. They fall through the cracks because they are not poor enough to get the freebies & yet cannot buy full medical insurance, even if they can afford it, because of pre-existing condition. I know this for a fact. The monthly prices & deductibles are high for a policy that only covers castatrophic conditions. They might as well have no coverage. Click on link below:

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Answer 2

Your mother is the kind of person who made our country great. And, yes, she should have some help.
People like your mom are not the ones "compassionate conservatives" gripe about.
The young, physically healthy parents who live by the week in motel rooms or broke down houses with their children while cooking meth or shooting dope are the ones who are at fault. Their kids have no food, clothes, no sanitary conditions or fresh air. They are exposed to all kinds of scumbags. The parents get a government check, blow it, and are asking for handouts the next day. Not for their children sake--It is difficult to have anything but negative feelings about those people.

Answer 3

Conservatives don't like to talk about this. They strongly believe that if someone is poor, it's only because they're lazy. If they are poor, they are a drag on the economy and should either be forced to work or put in prison.

But the fact is that 90% of people who live below the poverty line in the US are full-time workers! People who, in a favorite phrase of politicians of both parties, 'work hard and play by the rules'. This is not The American Dream.

When it comes to health care, -all- of us are screwed. The price we (and our employers) pay for health insurance has risen 70% just since GW Bush has been in office, and it was considered a crisis even then! The problem is that the profits of the insurance companies are a higher priority than actually helping people, and contributions from insurance companies are a higher priority to politicians than peoples' access to health care.

Answer 4

No, your mother is not one of those people the cons complain about. When it come to health care for working class Americans, the cons don't give a damn! That's too bad because it is going to be an important issue in next year's elections, and the Repubs are on the losing side of this issue.

I am a moderate independent voter, so I am not anti-Repub. The Repubs are just being foolish in handing this popular issue over to the Dimocrats, and it may cost them the election.

Answer 5

The HMO's have us *** over teakettle (or at least the Conservatives that love privatization).

It's going to get worse, not better.

To answer your question, I would hope no Conservative would go so far as to label your mother as such.

However, she is a victim of the system...one small sadistic (statistic) among many that leads America to having one of the worst rated health care ratings amongst developed nations.

Notice: how "Sway" is such a fine example.

Imagine, an America filled with successful corporate executives, engineers, lawyers, and doctors?

Who would run a gas station? Drive garbage trucks? Teach school children the basic facts?

American's have to help each other...Sway, you make me sick with your selfish attitude (and those like you).

Answer 6

How old is your mother? Is she eligible for Medicare, our universal health care for seniors? If she's over 50, AARP offers some very good low-cost health insurance programs. Has she looked into it? Also, most communities offer govt. subsidized clinics where low income pay for services on a sliding scale, or pay nothing.

Answer 7

Obviously since she needs to work seven days a week she's in a lower tax bracket and probably hasn't written a donation check in her life. So, why should anybody care?
My mother is retired, lives on social security, and has medicare.The costs are ridiculous. Despite what all those retarded "conservatives" think. she does have to pay for it (though it's not 800 bucks a month). This country should be ashamed of itself. I can only imagine how stupid and retarded any one is who thinks otherwise.
Did you notice you touched on a subject I feel strongly about, too? Voting for anyone who is not willing to make universal health care a priority is insane.

Answer 8

She should look around, there are several hospitals in the US that would help her. There are programs available to assist her. Instead of blaming everything on "conservatives" perhaps her lazy child should be making an afford to find help for her. Of course that would take time away from your taking potshots at Conservatives, but we all have to make sacrifices. I spent 20 years in uniform, then I worked several jobs supporting my family. I now work at the Boeing company,also supporting my family. My comments about you stand, if you are so successful why are you not helping your mother? You are in a word full of it.

Answer 9

While your story is sad, there are hundreds just like yours. It still does not mean I have to pay so that your mother can get affordable health insurance. Maybe if lawyers like John Edwards were to stop suing health care professionals over frivolous law suits, health care could be more affordable to all.

Answer 10

regaurdless of if he's telling the truth or not... there ARE PEOPLE LIKE THIS out there... clearly...

and there are MORE OF THEM... than there are people who are taking advantage of the system...

this is rediculous... and really, all conservatives have to say is "let them eat cake"...

there will always be the poor and the lower class workers...

to just deny them proper care because they aren't rich, which is exactly what you're saying, at it's base rediculous and blatantly immoral...

this is the "gas" that "fuels socialism"... this was motivation for the worker revolutions of the 1900s...