America at Large: Who Cares About You?

Since 2006 I have been rallied in a political fight to support National Health Care Reform. You see in late 2006 I fell and broke both of my legs; my right ankle, and my left knee were busted up in several places, and I had to be hospitalized for a month in December. I was bed ridden from November of 2006 until January of 2007, when I was finally able to return home chair bound and dependent on a walker. I felt helpless, useless and being immobile I had to attend school via rural transit, a company partly supported by the government that helps people get around, sort of like a bus service, but they are set up with a lift to help people in wheel chairs.

All in all the cost for two broken legs was well over $20,000.00 My legs still to this day give me fits, and because of my girth, I am six feet tall and weigh in at well over the weight of a pro wrestler, my legs may never heal right. It is like putting a bowling ball on tooth picks.

Now no matter how successful a writer I become I can never really afford to pay that back, not unless I become a novelist with a book on the best seller’s list, and how many writers can claim that role? Not many. Most writers are regular people who write and work hard for their money; I am part of the latter.

The bill for all I went through in Cuba, a third world country would be $0.00 In Europe, nations we fought for our freedom from $0.00 and in our northern neighbors in Canada, $0.00. In fact the United States, the leader of the free world is one of the last nations on earth that has failed to adopt a National Healthcare Policy.

In the days just prior to the American Revolution , patriots rowed a boat out to a ship in the Boston harbor to dump the tea on board into the Boston harbor. No taxation without representation. I say dump the meds in the ocean and demand national healthcare reform. We need to send a clear message to Washington that we are fed up and we will not put up with it anymore.

By tossing the meds into the ocean, I do not mean to toss your much needed meds into the sink, I mean contact your local congressman and tell him you are ticked off and you refuse to put up with it anymore. Power comes in numbers; one man can not fight a war of words alone without some people behind him. We need people who care about this nation to take action.