I don't think you should have to pay more into insurance whether you smoke, drink, or fatten yourself to 500lbs. I do think, however, that if you had the chance not to have a particular illness, then you should have to pay for treatment yourself - including "stupid accidents", cigarette smoke induced lung cancer, and obesity-related ailments. And if someone is just naturally fat, Uncle Sam can give them a free gym membership and a punch card. If the card gets punched they ride. If not... oh well when they get heart problems.
Anything else just isn't fair to the responsible people.
Well, thank you. I pay my bills on time. I don't drink or do drugs. I show up on time for appointments. I've raised 3 amazing kids, and have 6 grandkids and one great grandchild. I worked my backside off to make Navy housing units into homes, even when they were so bad that the only thing holding them up was the roaches in the walls linking arms and the pea green paint. I supported my husband's career for the entire 26 years he was in the military, from his beginnings as a Seaman Recruit to his retirement as a Lieutenant Commander. I kept our family going through his 36 months in Chu Lai, Viet Nam, and welcomed him home at his retirement just weeks before the battleship he helped recommission, the USS Wisconsin, fired her tomahawks in Desert Storm. We raised two of our grandchildren because of our daughter's illness, and the grandson we raised - the father of my great grandson and a wonderful husband to his wife - is now a Nuclear Reactor Operator on board a US Submarine. My granddaugher, who happens to be named after this irresponsible woman, is now almost 20 years old, has a good job, and an awesome fiance.
My husband and I have been married 46 years. We take care of each other when we're sick, we celebrate our good times and we hold each other through our bad times, such as the death of one of our grandsons when he was only 22 years old and had only been married for 9 months. We laugh, we cry, and we never stop loving each other. First and only marriage for both of us. We have faith that we are stronger than anything that can be thrown at us, and we have scrimped, worked and stood shoulder to shoulder when times were hard.
I served on our community's Planning and Zoning Commission, and I currently serve on our Town Council. I write a political column for our local newspaper and Senator Mike Enzi has used my columns on the floor of the US Senate at least 4 times. Every time he does, he has them entered into the official Congressional Record. I am a prize winning quilter. I taught adult literacy in the state of Mississippi when we were stationed there. I have friends that I've known and loved for over 40 years. My sisters and my brother are my greatest treasures.
I usually don't get angry at posts and forums and social media. I am so easy going that I tend to ignore things folks say rather than get into a battle of wits with them. I've found that sometimes when I think things through, I can just as easily be wrong on a topic as right, and it's harder to pull your foot out of your mouth when you've made a fool of yourself besides. But your comment - your judgement of me as not being a responsible person because of one thing - just hit me wrong. Please do not pontificate (you can look that word up later) about my worthiness to share this planet with you. You don't know me, and I don't know you. But neither I, nor anyone else you just insulted by calling us"irresponsible", has to put up with that here or anywhere else. How dare you?
