Several hours to Supreme Court on "Obamacare"

It is now several hours before the Supreme Court plays God again and tells us their decision on "Obamacare".  I'd bet on a 5-4 to kill it and tell most of us "we can go fuck ourselves". I wonder if any of the "Supremes" are diabetic or have kids or grandkids who are?

Fucking diabetes runs in my family^*.

My youner brother, also a type 2, has a slender son (a marathon runner), who has a slender, healthy and very active 3 year old daughter. I told his son, "CJ", that there is nothing good or desirable about diabetes. He said, "we are watching [her] very carefully." My nephew was clearly worried about his daughter. After all, his grandfather on one side died of a heart attack caused by his adult onset "type 1", his Uncle Charlie also died of a heart attack caused by his  jouvenile onset type 1, his Father and his Uncle Mike (moi) are type 2s.

My nephew "CJ" has very nice medical insurance and can easily cover his family. You can't tell what will come later when a Republician eventually becomes President. I simply do not trust those fuckers! (I campaigned for Berry Goldwater, was a member of the "Young Republicans" in college (central Mississippi), and voted for Nixon in 1972, a decision I have never regreted.)

I wonder if the Republicians realize the average diabetes rate is around 9% in many places. I live in a county with 33,000 people, so that means there are

• 2970 diabetics in this part of Kansas
• 5% or 148.5 are type 1 and
• 2821.5 are type 2

in the county I live in. (I suppose the new 0.5 diabetics could be combined into one "type 2"?)   This is a really large number of people to have to consider what President Obama has tried to do for them and what presumptive Republician Candidate former Governor Mitt Romney would do to all of us!  I don't expect Romney to keep his Mitt's off "Obamacare" if it survives and if fG Romney becomes President. Maybe we'll get "Romney Care"?
Well, it is now 9:42 am CDT and time to go water my garden and otherwise get ready to go to work this afternoon. I can gin up letters to "my" Congress criters later. They are all Conservative Republicians who put the finiancial well being of the top 5% ahead of "white trash" like me. (I must be white trash as I am in the top 50% and will never be in the top 25%...)

I wonder how Tim, Jerry and Pat would react to "Obamacare" if they or their loved ones were to lose their health care? Well, they can tap dance on this issue when they send their weekly newsletter emails out.  Maybe I'll go off the wagon, have a gin-n-tonic and read them?








* I was not an English major; my BS required calculas and physics, so I don't buy the idea that single sentence paragraphs are a no-no.