REPUBLICANS WERE WRONG IT SEEMS

It seems those who cheered at the prospect of those of us with preexisting conditions dying and said that Americans did not want The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act were wrong, factually as well as morally, the latter of which I at least already knew. By the end of Open Enrollment yesterday, at least Seven Million (7,000,000) that's seven with six zeros following it, for those of you Republicans unable to count that high, had signed up for Health Insurance through healthcare.gov. Some say that it is not clear how many of these people already had insurance. But that is COMPLETELY missing the whole point. If people could get better deals through healthcare.gov, it is still more affordable. I technically had Health Insurance through The Texas Risk Pool, but it was required by State Law to always be twice the rate of comparable, private coverage, which I'm sure put it out of reach for millions who have preexisting conditions but ere nevertheless not quite poor enough for medicaid, I had to prove every year that I was still ineligible for other coverage, still subhuman as it always felt like they were saying to me, and it ended at midnight last night, March 31st, 2014, since other options now exist. So, people that had other coverage but got a better deal this way count no less than those who had no options at all under a system that put making money ahead of making people well, and to suggest otherwise is simply absurd. Others say that it is unclear how many of those who signed up for coverage were younger, healthier people versus how many were older, sicker people. This is something that has driven me crazy for months. I am thirty-eight and so still consider myself relatively young, although I will be the first to admit that I can no longer keep the hours that I could when I was Twenty-Five. But since when I was eight years old I had what is these days called a traumatic brain injury as the result of being the pedestrian in an auto-pedestrian accident, for the past twelve years, since I became too old to be covered through my father, I have had the Risk Pool as my only option because Private Health Insurance looked on me as unhealthy, so it is not all one or the other. There are younger "sick" people too, and plenty of perfectly healthy older people, certainly including several that I know personally. But for me, with regard to The Risk Pool versus The Coverage I was able to get under what I call Justice In Health Care, it was never about the money. It was always about my Humanity. It seemed to me that under the old system, private Health Insurance companies were denying my very Humanity because they were denying my basic Human Right to decent, basic Health Care at an affordable rate, and in talking about nothing but undoing Justice In Health Care, Republicans are continuing to cast those of us with Health "issues" in that light. They say Americans do not want this law and think that opposing it will work well for them in November, but seven million plus Americans seem to feel differently, since that many have signed up for coverage, and that may not be substantial percentage of the population, but it is a significant number, especially since many of us have family and friends that we will NEVER speak to again unless they cast a straight Democratic Ticket in November. So the gauntlet is cast, and the battle is joined. PEOPLE LIKE ME WIIL BE TREATED LIKE HUMAN BEINGS, and even if we go down, we will go down swinging, and take as many of those who would deny our very Humanity with us as w can.