I didn't know I was wealthy!!

[Dr.Phool]

I just got back from the VA Medical Clinic, where I applied for a medical card. Yeah, you know that place where, back during the Vietnam War, when I enlisted, they told me I could always go to get medical care, if necessary.

I never needed it before. I worked for the Railroad for 31 years, and always had good, employer provided health insurance. And I was supposed to have coverage after I retired, but when the management ran the company into the ground, bankrupteded it, and escaped with their golden parachutes, that went out the window too. I found out that my healthcare coverage is terminated at the end of June, so I figured I'd apply. I knew that since the chimp took office, they applied an earnings test for benefits. I didn't know what they were until today.

It seems that if you and your spouse make over $32k per year, you're too rich for benefits you were promised 35 years ago. I'm on a disability pension, which I admit pays more than the average Floridian makes. But in this Wal-Mart, tourism economy, they don't make much to begin with.

But, I am thankful for one thing. By the end of this week, thanks to all the Repukes in the Senate, and a special thanks to my asshole, DINO Senator BILL Nelson (FL-Dickhead), I won't have to worry about paying that damned death tax:sarcasm:

[Sadie5]

1. This is a disgrace

and Chimpy nose should be rubbed in it, along with the Senate. $32,000 is barely making ends meet, and they want you to sacrifice for their evil wars.

[lpbk2713]

2. Management that sells out its employees like that

should be hunted down and have all their assets forfeited. And they certainly should not have any retirement fund of their own, nor should they have any insurance of any kind.

Good luck Doc.

[Dr.Phool]

3. Well, we now can BUY insurance through my wife's employer.

And it's not cheap.

[gollygee]

4. Good thing we support our troops in this country

:sarcasm:

[Warpy]

5. I know how you feel

because when I was living on $800/month, the first $560 of which went to the mortgage, I was deemed to rich for NM's Medicaid. Why? Because I had the mortgage. People are allowed only $1500 in assets, a laughably low number that hasn't been changed since the 1950s, certainly not indexed to the runaway inflation we've had since then.

It's amazing how they define rich in this country, isn't it?

[Dr.Phool]

6. The only country in the industialized world

Where you can bankrupt your entire family for getting sick or injured.

[zbdent]

7. But, also remember, Republicans think that people with salaries over 200K

are not wealthy . . . they're middle class . . . and they deserve a "middle class tax cut" . . .