I’m always torn on whether to read the agitprop that lands in my inbox from the White House, but it’s usually good for a laugh.  I got this today.  My comments are in bold.

Good afternoon,

Howdy

I am a staunch Republican, a self-proclaimed Fox News addict, and I didn’t vote for the President. And I’m here to tell you that Obamacare works. I’m living proof.

Sure, Obamacare works, so long as someone else is paying for it.  

I’m a chemotherapy patient, and was previously paying $428 a month for my health coverage. I was not thrilled when it was cancelled.

I’m a chronic auto-immune disease patient, who takes some really nifty-neato medications that cost an arm and a leg.  But since they help to make sure I can keep using my arms and legs, I pay for them.  I also make sure I keep my job and the good health insurance that comes from a lifetime of busting my ass.  I’d be annoyed if that got cancelled, but I’d find some way to keep my self-respect and not go on the public dole if that happened.

Interesting that you don’t say why your health insurance was cancelled.  Did you have a minimum-coverage plan that was made illegal by the ACA?   Maybe your employer decided that it was cheaper to just pay the find, I’m sorry, tax and quit offering it?

Then I submitted an application at HealthCare.gov. I looked at my options. And I signed up for a plan for $62 a month.

Great.  How much bread did you steal from the mouths of my children to get your premium down that low, if you don’t mind me asking?

It’s the best health care I have ever had.

Dude, if you had shitty healthcare for $428 a month, you should have done something about that years ago.  Like, you know, changing jobs or buying your own.  Just saying.

So right now, here’s what I want to tell anyone who still needs health insurance, or knows someone who does:

Sign up. Follow the instructions on the website. Apply, and look at your options. You still have time, and take it from me: This is something you want to do.

Here’s my advice to those who need insurance, or knows someone who does:  Grow a sense of shame and quit trying to suckle from the great whore on the Potomac.  Get off your ass and provide for yourself.  Or don’t.  Your choice.  Just quit forcing the rest of us to provide for you.

I wrote a letter to President Obama this past February to tell him about my experience with the Health Insurance Marketplace. I hoped he’d read it, and he did.

Good for you.  I wonder if he read that letter I sent him last spring telling him that I didn’t want him in my gun safe any more than he wanted me in his bedroom?  

I may not be a supporter of the President. But now, I get mad when I see Obamacare dragged through the mud on television.

I get mad when I look at the almost 40% of my paycheck that is taken out to pay for the leeches that either work for the government or have figured out that Uncle Sugar will keep them drawing breath so long as they keep voting the way they want them to or at least pen spam for the Politburo.

And even though I regularly tune in to conservative pundits, I’d like to tell them they’re getting it wrong. Obamacare works.

If it works so well, why does every date slip in the President’s project plan?  If I delayed things the way he did, I’d be shown the door.  Successful plans tend to get implemented on time, or at least close to being on time.

So one more time: If you still need health insurance, you have just three days to get it. Do what I did. Go to HealthCare.gov, submit an application, and pick a plan that works for you.

Or, you can get off your ass, quit being a parasite, and take care of your own damned self.

It just might change your life.

Yeah, providing for your own needs without making the rest of us pay for it might change your life, too.  Seriously, I hope your chemo goes well, and you wallow in shame in having to go to Obama with hat in hand to get it.

Mark D. Bearden, Ph.D.
Monroe, North Carolina