Why is basic healthcare availability for all such a phobic topic for Republicans? Why is socialism linked to it all the time but greed is never attached to the current situation that leaves millions without any medical coverage at all? In an article today from CNN, they analyze one Canadian woman’s struggle to get a brain tumor removed. On the North side of the border she is put on a waiting list for several months. This exact example was used by Mitch McConnell (R) Kentucky. He blasted the waiting times afflicting the Canadian ill. That she had to wait several months is the horror scenario he described, writing off universal healthcare with it. The article also mentions that the woman turned to the US Mayo Clinic for surgery, the bright spot of her health story, according to McConnell. What this cost the woman, and what McConnell didn’t mention, was $100,000. To obtain that money, she mortgaged her home and borrowed from friends and family. Recent studies have suggested that 67 percent of personal bankruptcy cases are medically related in the US, and of those 80 percent were insured. That is a crime in itself, that US families go broke in order to pay for one member’s health issues. I understand that the US is a bootstrap society, as in pull yourself up with hard work, but when hard working families are routinely pushed out of healthcare the old GOP bootstrap theory is no longer working. As a part-time student I was not covered, despite being employed at a restaurant, My options were COBRA, at about $600 a month for little ol me, $400 a month for private insurance, or to hope I don’t get hurt or sick. That was my plan. Hope not to get sick or hurt. I think the GOP needs to stop hating the poor and working class and look at what their greedy, big business protecting ways are doing to employed, hard working Americans. It’s easy for well-padded public officials with sweet health packages to argue against this stuff, tell that to the Wal-Mart worker with cancer. What is it worth to at least be able to GO TO A HOSPITAL? Even with a wait.