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Look you know what Americans are like. If you don't punish them for getting sick, they're just going to go out and get sick.

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Tin Kitty, Childless Lady Cat's avatar

When I was a kitten, we lived in a mobile home while Mom and Dad TK saved up money to build the geodesic dome house that they were both gaga over (they'd paid for blueprints which hung in the living room of the trailer as a reminder of The Goal). Then Mom got cancer the first time.... and then the second time... and then the third time. And even though she was a nurse and worked at a hospital and had full insurance, well, suddenly, no one was talking about The Goal anymore, because we had Bills.

After she died, when Dad and I moved into a house (not the dome), I never saw those blueprints again.

ETA: This is a downer, but I actually meant for it to be more hopeful -- I hope, fervently, that no kid will have to see The Goal get delayed or moved due to medical debt again!

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