Open Letter to Ted Cruz


Mr Cruz
I watched your Super Tuesday speech with mounting disgust last night.  Your obvious joy at the prospect of removing healthcare from tens of millions of Americans appalls me.  You intend to “repeal every word of Obamacare” on day 1 of your presidency and avoid any form of socialized medicine which I take to mean you will abolish Medicare, too.
I am a part-time teacher earning less than $25,000 a year.  I was dropped from my school’s health insurance plan when my hours were reduced.  Fortunately I am old enough for Medicare and, even more fortunately I enrolled in part D just a few weeks before being diagnosed with multiple myeloma, cancer of the bone marrow.  Medicare is covering the bulk of my expenses and the premiums and tax I am paying for it are moderately affordable.
Imagine if I were 5 years younger and in the same position with you as president: I could not afford health insurance even if I didn’t know I had cancer and I can only imagine how much Blue Cross would charge me for a policy if they knew I had cancer.  So, thanks to you, I would be looking at cashing in my savings and selling the house.  Or simply dying.  Thank you for that.
You lavished God’s blessings around last night - the God in my bible helps the poor and the sick.  He would be ashamed of a heartless, gutless piece of slime like you.  Until last night I had thought that you at least had the saving grace of being better than Donald Trump.  Now I realise that I was wrong.


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