HIGH DEDUCTIBLE OR HIGH PREMIUM HEALTH INSURANCE IS NO HEALTH INSURANCE

High deductible, low premium.
High premium, low deductible.
High premium, forgo everyday necessities.
High deductible, forgo health care.
Either way, they will eventually get you.
You are no match for big business.

High premium, choose between servicing your automobile,
Or paying your monthly premium.
Choose between food and medicine.
To hell with the premium.
Eating and driving are basic human needs.
God will protect me.

God takes a very brief nap,
And that pin prick turns into a sore.
The sore persists and expands,
God is in charge.
Your flesh is disappearing,
The flesh-eating bacteria have arrived.

I wish that I paid the premium,
But I would not drive.
Being fired in a recession is devastating,
So is going hungry and paying the premium.
These are no easy choices,
Either way, you are screwed.

High deductible, choose between an MRI or Motrin.
Gnaw, gnaw, gnaw.
Ignore, ignore, ignore.
Until it is too late.
The cancer has taken over your body,
Now it is too late.

Single payer is the way to go.
The rich and affluent can ignore the system,
But they won’t feed fat on the single payer system,
As in the current system,
Where you pay for health care insurance,
And forgo health care, while billions flow to the one percent.

Africastallestman hopes that the Congress and the President are listening.