A high school friend, son a Republican mayor, had his appendix rupture while in the far north woods of Saskatchewan on a fishing trip. He was flown out by float plane to Saskatoon, his life barely saved, and Canada refused to take a dime from him. However, he is a Rush Limbaugh brainwashed devotee and he is back home bad mouthing “Obamacare”!

While teaching over the years, my district had to contract yearly with a provider, some were fair, others were bad. If I had a doctor I liked, often they were not an “approved provider” for that insurer. Humana used to deny my internist every time he would prescribe a drug if there was no generic available. I commend my doctor for fighting with some secretary in Louisville over and over. Having a colostomy in 1985, having a portion of my lower colon removed due to a mass of tumors, I have had to have a colonscopy every five years since (where they always find more polyps and remove them). My five year anniversary fell once during the time Humana covered me and once again, my doctor had to “go to the mat” to get me this procedure. Having a bad year of cancer outbreaks in our small district, one insurer refused to renew our contract for another year and evidently blacklisted us in the industry as the district had to go with one of the highest priced plans then.