A Day Late and a Dollar Short

 

     As many of you know, I now live in Arizona (Hopefully not for too much longer) but I'm still getting my medication refills from my pharmacy in Massachusetts. I just spoke with them and they said I'll have three scripts to pick up. I was put on Medicare this past January and, so far, the medicines' copays total just $4.65. I have an arrangement with the pharmacy whereby my son, who lives in the area, picks up my meds then mails them to me here in Phoenix. One of them is Atorvastatin (Lipitor), which literally keeps me alive.

     But after I got done talking to the pharmacy tech, it made me wonder whether I'll still have this coverage after Trump's pack of rabid assclowns gets done butt-slamming our health coverage into oblivion. Republicans, largely plutocrats who don't need a social safety net, have been gunning for Social Security since it was first created in the 30s and Medicare and Medicaid since 1965. And they've been after the ACA since President Obama first signed it into law in 2010. It's as if they're literally trying to kill us.

     Then it occurred to me why health insurance is now suddenly at the forefront of everyone's minds. Why weren't we talking about it this past election cycle? Why did it take a healthcare CEO's killing to remind us that health care was always on the Republican Party's chopping block and that it will be seriously jeopardized in a little over a month?