Arrggghhh! VIRGINIA!

[fabrisse]

I have said it before, and I will say it again. My family didn't participate in the Jamestown colony in order for the Commonwealth of Virginia to do things like sue the Federal Government over universal health care.

If anyone wonders why I avoid what is technically my family's home state, this is why. They have become so overwhelmingly Conservative that I think Margaret Thatcher would seem like a liberal in comparison.

I have had "socialist" health care for a good chunk of my life (military dependent for my first 23 years, two years as a student in Britain, two years as a taxed worker in Belgium).

In the US, I have had to be declared indigent to get antibiotics for pneumonia after my COBRA ran out when I was unemployed. If thorbol and moria923 hadn't paid me to be their reader, I might have had far worse problems with getting essential medications. And eanja has been a genuine lifesaver (as indeed many other people who helped me during my deepest depression have been).

Every day, I see the problems that occur when people have to put off doctor's visits or can't afford medications.

And now Virginia is wearing a pretty new hat on its ass.

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I'm sorry to hear about your Mom.

Virginia was the last state to accept integration, although busing issues actually got to be worse in Boston and some other Northern cities.

Commerce at least seems like a plausible way to appeal healthcare, but seriously, we are the only country in the world where the leading cause of personal bankruptcy is medical expenses. We need to fill in the cracks.