No More Dead Bloggers (Updated) 1
I never met Jim Capozzola of Rittenhouse Review.
About the time I started my sporadic visits to Drinking Liberally in Philadelphia, he was winding down.
But he must have been quite a guy, not just for his politics, but also for his intellect and his personality, judging from the comments from persons who I know and respect, who knew and respected him.
Persons like Susie, Duncan, Brendan, Phillybits, upyernoz (link added) and many more.
I don’t know of what medical ailment he died of. I do know that he was much younger than I, and that the actual, if not the medical, cause of his death was that he was self-employed and therefore had no employer-provided health insurance (just like me).
And he didn’t make enough money to pay the hundreds of dollars a month it costs to buy health insurance on the open market.
And the lack of health insurance kept him from seeking medical attention until it was too late.
Though he died from a medical condition, the cause of his death was political: The failure of the United States to deal with the health insurance situation and its contentment to rank 37th in health care, behind, for Christ’s sake, Costa Rica (number 36), while insurance company executives get the Live Large.
Susie has issued a call to action.
No more dead bloggers from lack of health care.
Addendum, Later That Same Evening:
A link.
Via Susie.
July 6, 2007 at 1:23 am
Try being in business for yourself, income solely derived from that business, then price it. Add to that what they ALL call “pre-existing conditions”, such as high blood pressure, fibromyalgia, & the after effects of polio.
The cheapest option was Kaiser, the worst of ‘managed health care’, at $750.00 a month.
Maybe being angry beyond belief won’t get anywhere, but neither does talking to the powers that be.
Now I’m going to shut up.