I worked for many years primarily within poor and minimum/low wage populations. Some were married, some divorced or single parents, some worked in the underground economy. There were down on their luck middle class families too, sketchy job histories, part time or temp workers with no health insurance net. Some received government assistance of some kinds, some had minimal family help, some got food stamps, but for the most part, these dysfunctional/challenged families just barely made ends meet. And not all were on Medicaid or Medicare.

Lots of these family members had chronic and acute illnesses including cancer, and during more than two decades, I ~never~ heard that anyone I worked with was simply sent home to die (when diagnosed at a treatable stage) because they did not have private or work health insurance. Maybe the hospitalized slept in group wings, maybe they did not receive Cadillac treatments (i.e., the kinds of drug regimens that my own family, which makes many hard choices to pay for our private plan, probably could not get through our insurer or independently afford). And one woman with a yearly wage (in the 80′s) of around $28,000/no medical insurance did *have* to pay back her hospital bills in continuous small payments over the years as soon as she returned to work, and as long as she did work. Yes – this did bite badly, but she always had enough to manage, and she is happy to have survived.

The ‘fairness’ of this ad??? This ad is just nuts! If anyone anywhere is fired, unable to find a full-time job with healthcare in the disastrous Obama economy, and chooses not to have a checkup for *fear* of racking up medical costs – we can now label any firing authority a murderer???? This is not only libs digging under the sub-basement for attack material, it sets up a daffy, dangerous leftist precedent for creating whole new categories of victim groups.