THE LIGHTNING FLASHES

Yes, when I was an eight year old CHILD, I made the mistake of running out into the street in front of a car. But every child makes mistakes, albeit not all that serious. Yes, as a result of this mistake, I sustained a Traumatic Brain Injury (what at the time was just called a head injury). But does that mean that I should be punished for life for a mistake I made when I was an eight year old CHILD? Golden Rule Health Insurance certainly thought so when they cancelled my first independent Health Insurance Policy when they found out about this and said that had they known about this they would not have issued the policy because of my "Preexisting Condition". Every other Private Health Insurance Company that I then applied to shared this opinion for the same reason, since after Golden Rule I realized that "what serious health issues have you had within the past five years?" really meant "what serious health issues have you had in your entire life?" and so I gave that, including the tonselectomy at three and rosiola when I was two in addition to the car accident and TBI at eight. So, from the time I as Twenty-Six until this January (I turned Thirty-Eight last November, you do the math) I had The Texas Risk Pool as my only option, which is certainly better than what people like me (if there are any, sometimes I wonder, for few if any of then ever say much) in States with not even that had. While The Risk Pool was required by Texas Law to always be twice the rate of comparable, private coverage (I guess the idea was to make it so onerous that people would quickly find alternatives, but for some of us there were no alternatives) what really bothered me was not the money, money for its own sake means nothing to me, although I do like food, clothing, shelter and entertainment. What really bothered me, though, was that it seemed to me that I was regarded as some kind of subhuman pond scum because of a mistake that I made when I was an eight year old CHILD. On January First of this year, 2014, of course, The PATIENT PROTECTION and Affordable Care Act came fully into effect and that kind of discrimination became illegal. I now have private Health Insurance through The Market Place Exchange, and since it was no longer needed, THe Risk Pool ceased to exist at the end of March. But, still, even four years after the law was passed and some of its full benefits are starting to come into effect, all any Republican can talk about is how horrible it is and how it must be undone as much and as soon as possible. At one of the 2012 Republican Presidential Primary Debates, when the subject was Health Care, the moderator even asked if those (of us) with Preexisting Conditions should just be allowed to die, one of the Candidates said "yes", and the crowd cheered, and no Republican I know has ever said to me those that did that did not speak for them, even though I have told my grandma and and my aunt more than once each that I have a "preexisting condition", which only leaves me to assume that that crowd did speak for them. Well, I, for one, WON'T HAVE IT. Either every Republican I know stops being a Republican and meets the rest of a week ago Monday's Demands, or I will NEVER speak to any of them again. But that is not all, from now on, Republicans will have no peace from me, those that I associate with and those in the State and National capitals. THE LIGHTNING FLASHES, and it will set fires wherever it strikes. There will be no peace, for the storm is almost upon those that would cheer at the deaths of people like me. THE LIGHTNING FLASHES, and where it strikes, the ground will be scorched beyond redemption. THE LIGHTNING FLASHES, and everyone on whom it flashes' eyes will go dark forever, but their hearts will be exposed to then and others as being dark and devoid of even Humanity Itself. THE LIGHTNING FLASHES, and its strikes will burn all who would cheer at death to less than ashes. THE LIGHTNING FLASHES, AND NATURE TAKES NO PRISONERS WHERE IT STRIKES. THE LIGHTNING FLASHES, AND THOSE THAT OPPOSE PROTECTING PATIENTS FROM GREEDY BUSINESS MEN WHO CARE NOTHING FOR HUMAN LIFE ABND OMNLY FOR MAKING MONEY WILLL EITHER CHANGE OR BE DESTROYED THE LIGHTNING FLASHES, AND THE LIGHT WILL EXPOSE THE DARKNESS IN THE HEARTS OF INSURANCE EXECUTIVES WHO SUPPORTED REFORM WITH THEIR MOUTHS BUT FOUGHT IT WITH THEIR POCKET BOOKS (HM,.WHERE HAVE WE HEARD ABOUT PEOPLE WHOSE LIPS SAY ONE THING BUT WHOSE ACTIONS SAY ANOTHER BEFORE?). THE LIGHTNING FLASHES, AND THE LIGHT FROM ITS BURSTS WILL BRING AN END TO THE DECEPTION OF ANY WHO OPPOSE PUTTING PATIENTS FIRST BUT WHO CALLL THEMSELVES "PRO LIFE". THE LIGHTNING FLASHES AND THE FIRES WILL RAGE, AND ALL IN THEIR WAY WILL RUN FOR THEIR LIVES OR LOSE THEM, AND EVEN THOSE THAT RUN WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ESCAPE UNLESS THEY SEE THE LIGHT ABOUT JUSTICE IN HEALTH CARE REFORM AND CHANGE THEIR ACTIONS, THINKING AND WAYS. THE LIGHTNING FLASHES, AND ALL OPPOSITION TO JUSTICE IN HEALTH CARE WILL BE STRUCK AND KILLED BY IT. INDEED, THE LIGHTNING FLASHES!