Well, it has finally come to this. Terri Carlson, the lovely lady pictured to the left, 45 year old divorced mom who lives in California, has put herself out there in a very interesting way. She suffers from a very rare condition called C4 Complement Deficiency in which the body's immune system attacks itself, thinking it has an infection. She doesn't have health insurance, and her COBRA insurance is going to run out at the end of this year. So, what is a girl to do? She has launched a website, http://www.willmarryforhealthinsurance.com/ , and is asking for someone to marry her so that she can get proper medical treatment. Here is a little of what she had to say:
"I don't care what you look like. But what I do care about is how good your health insurance is. So, you want me to respond to you? Attach your health-care benefit information." Wow! Let's just pause for a moment and let this sink in. We have entered the Victorian era once more. Here is a woman who is so desperate for medical care, that she is willing to put herself in a marriage where the only requirement is that he has great health insurance. Let's read some of the responses from potential suitors:
Suitor One:"I sent you a message an hour ago on a different video, but let me add, with military insurance, as long as we use a military doctor, it's free and it's for life. I offer this to you. Contact me!"
(Nah, too desperate)
Suitor Two: "Give Canada a shot."
(Interesting idea...and given the direction of the healthcare debate raging in Washington, her best chance to get covered may lie in leaving the good ol' U.S. of A.)
Suitor Three: "I am not a drinker, and I don't smoke or ever hit a woman. I don't argue, I am 55, decent-looking and financially responsible."
(Good on paper guy! Terri, hit this one back!)
Things have gotten so bad for Terri, that she even considered robbing a bank to secure health insurance. Because, in this country, we insure all the prisoners, just not any civilians! Terri says: "At one point, I seriously thought about robbing a bank. Because, then I could go to jail, and I could get three meals a day, work out, and get health care."
Damn! Is this the best we can do? Come on, America! We have got to wake up and realize that the private health insurance sector is NOT our friend! They don't want anyone that could be sick, or potentially sick, or is already sick stealing their profits from the backs of those suffering the most. This is not a right or left issue. This is a right or WRONG issue. And, when a woman takes to the internet to find a husband specifically so that she can get the healthcare that she so desperately needs, shouldn't we be scratching our heads and saying, WOW, this is a big fucking problem!
In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane." Well said. Could someone please remind our Congress and Senate of that?
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