Don't Get Around Much Anymore

I can't remember the last time I was in a bar, and I never was one to sit around drinking coffee. Since I don't go to work anymore either, I don't know who I might ask about Trump except you and Wikipedia. Well, maybe my daughter. She's a liberal, but she's kind of an anti-establishment liberal.  I'm sure she voted for your man Bernie and, last I heard, she was not a fan of Obamacare. She does know a lot of people, though, so she might be able to shed some light on this Trump thing. We are going to see her this Sunday so I will ask her.

When we were raising our daughter, homosexuality was still considered to be a sickness so, if she had told us that she was gay, we would have taken her to a doctor. I don't know what I would do about something like that today, and I'm glad I don't have to deal with it. Okay, I understand that it was sometime in the 70s when the AMA declared that homosexuality was not a sickness, but I never heard about it till years later, after my daughter was grown and gone.

I seem to remember reading that the Republicans in the House voted to repeal Obamacare a whole bunch of times, but the Democrats were in control of the Senate at the time, so you're right, it never went anywhere. Now that I think of it, I don't remember hearing about that since the Republicans took control of the Senate, but Obama would surely veto it if it got to his desk, so maybe they have quit trying. The Republicans sure have their share of goofballs, and I'm not going to defend anything they have said or done. Don't forget that I usually vote for the lesser of two evils. I have not heard in a long time that any Republicans want to raise my taxes or take my guns away, so that's all I need to know about them.

I don't know why we needed any kind of health care "reform" in the first place. Poor people were already getting free medical care, and the rich people didn't need it. It's the people in the middle who were getting squeezed, and that was mainly due to the insurance companies raising their rates to the point that many employers couldn't afford to pay for it anymore. If my boss can't afford it, you know damn well that I can't afford it either, so the solution is not to force me to buy health insurance. Well, I'm on Medicare so it doesn't affect me personally, but you get the point. I haven't been to a doctor since the time I stuck that fishhook in my hand, which was a few months before I became eligible for Medicare, but I have heard that health insurance costs more now than it ever has. That fishhook incident set me back a thousand dollars, which I easily paid with the money I saved by not buying health insurance. I wouldn't be surprised in it would still cost me a thousand dollars today, on top of whatever Medicare paid. That's how insurance works.