Terri is pretty, intelligent, and desperate.

No, not like THAT. I’m pretty sure she doesn’t have trouble finding male company whenever she wants it. But Terri needs more than male company, you see.

Much, much more.

Thanks to our privatized healthcare system, championed by those “freedom” loving Rushpubliscums who don’t want GUBMINT!!! getting in-between the health insurers and our money, Terri is uninsurable on her own. Her pre-existing condition status means that she doesn’t represent the big profit$ our health insurers demand-so she’s in a “marry or die” position. Literally.

Let’s take a minute to learn about Terri’s story.

This idea and website was created out of my frustration over what now seems to be a doomed healthcare reform bill. When the government indicated that the healthcare bill was now on “life support”, a panic came over me. What WILL happen when I loose my Cobra health insurance in a year?

01. WILL I have to sell my house to pay for my healthcare and medications?

02. WILL I end up on the streets? Bankrupt?

03. WILL I loose everything I worked for all my life??

BOTTOM LINE: I can’t count on anyone but myself. After exploring ALL options, the end result is my search for a HEALTHCARE HUSBAND. Forget about romance, I just need a man with a good health plan!

I am a 45 year old divorced women in San Diego. I am currently on Cobra health insurance. I also have a genetic defect C-4 complement deficiency . As a mother of 4 grown children, I spent the last 24 years at home raising my children. Now, I am faced with being divorced, having a disability and Cobra running out.

Where will I go??? I qualify through my doctor as having a disability.  I would qualify for medi-cal , ssi or ssdi but I can’t get it . Why, because stay-at -home Mom’s raising children don’t pay into the fund to collect ssdi from the State of California.  While I do qualify for SSI, the gouverment says I have too many ASSETS.  I have a  settlement from my divorce and I work from home for a disabled organization that provides jobs for people with disabilities.  They don’t provide healthcare for there employees because they were told it would cost to much to add us to there company policy.   Cobra currently costs me over $400 a month and my medications and doctor co-pays cost me an additional $200.

OUR GOVERNMENT won’t let me help myself!
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The identification of my defect came nearly 15 years after first becoming ill.

It is not easy living with my disease and now that I have the genetic answer for my health issues, every insurance company uses the information to deny me insurance coverage.  You know, I am not happy I was dealt this deck of cards in my life.  However, if I don’t fight for myself nobody will.  While the gouverment fights over healthcare reform people like me suffer.    I will continue on this crusade by putting my face out in the media and as drastic as it sounds, YES, I will marry for health insurance!!!

You may remember the story I posted awhile back about the girl who took her boyfriend’s name-so she could insure him. Such is the way things are with our healthcare system, which forces “choices” like Terri’s every day on people. I recall those idiot “teabaggers” walking around chanting their Caribou Barbie “DEATH PANELS!!!” slogan out in front of all the town hall meetings last summer, and I wonder…. would one of those idiots like to talk about the death sentences handed out by private insurers EVERY SINGLE DAY in America? The Rushpubliscums claim that forcing health insurers to cover everyone would be too much of a “burden” on businesses-and yet, (1.) we know that healthcare is the biggest single cost component of any American made product or service, and (2.) millions of people who might bring us the next great invention or innovation stay in jobs that they hate because they don’t want to wind up like Terri Carlson.

Americans, sometimes, are just a stupid lot. The President is entirely correct when he says that fixing healthcare is the only way to put our economy on a sustainable track. The greedy, murderous system we have now kills economic progress while it kills people like Terri Carlson. We either fix it, or we finish our march to the third world.

And Terri, and those like her, sit and wait to die, while the Rushpubliscums, their “Blue Dick” Congressional brethren,  and their “teabagger” tools do everything in their power to ensure that nothing changes.

I’d certainly consider proposing to Terri, were I single. Maybe you should too. You have to admit, marrying her is probably going to be quicker and easier than breaking the corporate strangehold on our Congress. Why I can tell already that we’d have a lot to talk about…

Tags: failure, healthcare, murder, private insurance, rushpubliscums, terri carlson

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