Kay Hagan Wants You to Die of Breast Cancer
I know I can’t find a mammogram for less than 150.00 which means I don’t get one.
–Christina S., Facebook
Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake:
I’ve been fighting breast cancer for 16 years now, and am gratefully in recovery from my third bout.
I’m lucky to be one of the ones who fought and won, but there are many who fought and lost. …
Fighting for your life and knowing you could lose everything you have in the process is agonizing.
So when I see women like Kay Hagan who oppose a public plan because she wants “to ensure private health insurance isn’t going to be destabilized,” I take it pretty personally.
Then there’s Olympia Snowe, who worries that a public plan will keep prices low and cut into insurance company profits, because keeping the Blue Cross healthy is evidently more important than keeping the public healthy.
And there’s Diane Feinstein who says criticism from the left “doesn’t move me one whit” when it comes to supporting a public plan, as if her vote is a matter of personal fancy and not her responsibility as a public servant. (This from a woman who has never worried for one minute about how she could pay for a catastrophic illness — most of us don’t have the luxury of casting votes to award our husbands billions of dollars in government contracts.)
There’s Mary Landrieu, who says a public plan “undermines the essence of our efforts to create a real market-based private sector model,” and Blanche Lincoln, who worries about “usurping” the insurance industry’s ability “to compete in the marketplace.”
Well, none of them will ever have to worry about what it’s like to be at the mercy of the insurance industry when your life hangs in the balance.. They’ll enjoy being a part of the Federal Employee Benefits Program for life, so they are free to focus on keeping their millions campaign donations from the insurance industry flowing.
So when Kay Hagan says “she wants “to ensure private health insurance isn’t going to be destabilized”, what she means is “My campaign funders mean more to me than my constituents’ health”.
Christina S., who is my age, continues:
I gotta be 50 to qualify for a low cost one from a local charity here… 9 1/2 years till that happens….and the clinic can deny me Birth Control if I don’t get it….
While my friend can’t afford to get her breast checked out, Kay Hagan and her colleagues enjoy lifetime health care, paid for by you and me, without having to take so much as a medical examination.
So Jane wants you to send Kay a message. I’ve signed on and hope you will too. Call her as well: 202-224-6342 (tell her you’re from Greensboro, zip code 27408 or from Raleigh, zip code 27601).
Kay is being a real fucking bitch on the issue, and someone needs to whip her into shape. Why not you?
July 1st, 2009 at 1:50 pm
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