An American Tragedy that Obamacare could have avoided I’d like to tell you the story of a man whose life might have been very different if he’d had access to Obamacare. About 18 years ago, he and a buddy of his formed a small company called Gray Matter. Our guy applied his not-inconsiderable intellectual and scientific acumen to their product. Right before the company caught a break and became very successful, his buddy found a pretense and squeezed him out. He’d just bought a house. A starter house, for his family. His wife was pregnant with their first-born son, and things were looking up. But he got dealt dirty in business, and he had to land on his feet quickly to cover medical bills and support his new family. He took a position teaching high school. It’s steady, and offers medical. His son - and they had no way of knowing in advance - was born with a disease. His entrepreneurial spirit wanted to soar. His grounded commitment to his family forced him to tether that spirit, because a child with a pre-existing position meant he couldn’t change jobs or strike out on his own without losing his suddenly very necessary health care plan. Try as he did to kill that entrepreneurial itch, it just wouldn’t die. It bided its time. Fast-forward 16 years, and he’s still teaching. He’s good at it, but it wasn’t what he wanted. Maybe it was that pent-up desire eating his insides that finally manifested itself in his cancer diagnosis. The clock is now ticking - on his life! - and his wife is pregnant with their second child! Our hero’s long-dormant entrepreneurial spirit would be denied no longer. He took to a life of crime in a desperate effort to provide for his family. He killed people himself. He paid people to kill for him. His illegal activities ruined countless lives. In the end, he lost what he cared about most - the love of his family. What does all of this have to do with Obamacare? If Walter White wasn’t trapped in an unfulfilling job he needed to care for his young disabled son, if he’d been able to buy an affordable plan without being denied for pre-existing conditions, perhaps he never would have broken bad.
Posted on: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 10:35:55 +0000
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