First of all, I am not a fan.  During the campaign every time you said, “pals around with terrorists” I wanted to throw a shoe at the TV.  (Have you seen Bill Ayres?  He’s as dangerous as Deputy Barney Fife of Mayberry RFD.) 

Today I was skimming past Fox and I heard you say “Why would they give up their seat in Congress if?  If it’s a principle – then tell me what principle.” I actually heard sincerity in your voice – which I’ve never heard before.  I’ve heard sarcasm and ridicule – but never sincerity or an honest interest in anything beyond Alaska and your own career.  

Here’s a partial answer. My nephew was born when my sister was only 18 – severely handicapped.  Against advice of the professionals, she refused to institutionalize him and took on the burden of raising him herself. The process of getting him medical care has been the focus of the lives of my sister, her husband and their other two children for the last 20 years.  Unable to get insurance for a preexisting condition, they have cared for him with a patchwork of state programs, charity and sacrifice. 

Here’s a challenge for you: Try to find insurance for Trig.  Don’t tell them who you are, famous people always get special treatment. Just make some anonymous calls or go online. If you aren’t covered by a group plan and have to buy an individual plan, could you afford to pay for insurance for Trip on a middle class income?  What things aren’t covered?  You need an attorney to read the fine print on insurance contracts.  It’s amazing how many loopholes they have in those contracts.  If it’s a safety net – it’s in need of mending. 

As a single mother of two, my job decisions were always based on insurance coverage, not the job itself.  I took jobs with no future and low wages just to get the coverage.  When my son was twelve he was diagnosed with epilepsy. At the time I had a job and insurance but once he had a preexisting condition, I was not longer insurable.

Like in real life, I was laid off from my job, a week later my son’s appendix ruptured, I paid the high COBRA premium to keep him insured and a month later we were living in a campground. I went from middle class executive to homeless family in one month.  It happens every day in America. 

That’s why Congressmen and Senators are willing to put it on the line.  It is about principle but more than that – it’s about suffering people.

For millions and millions of Americans, getting medical care is a never-ending battle.  We have the best care in the world but only if you can afford it.  More and more middle class Americans are being priced out of the market. 

Once you have insurance, the insurance companies have a bag of tricks that make Congress look like boy scouts.  The discontinue coverage and sentence children to death routinely.  As a right to life person, this kind of corporate callousness must break you heart. 

The quality of insurance varies from state to state.  Some states have more regulation.  I know you hate that word but even a basketball game has regulations.  Imagine a game with not rules.  It’s called anarchy.  Governments are instituted among men to provide order – to establish the rules of the road.  Us little guys need protection from the Mega Corpse that controls the insurance industry and our economy.

I call them Mega Corpse because it is their dead weight that is crushing this economy.  They have sucked the life from this economy and are still coming back for more.  They nearly sent the world into a massive depression and are now spending billions to fight regulation that would prevent a repeat.  These are not the entrepreneurs who revitalize a nation’s economy – they are the dead weight that cripples it. 

The insurance companies have a death grip on American families.  Their profits soar and our children die because the life saving procedure has been denied by the Insurance Corp.  Millions live with untreated illnesses in a nation that invented modern medicine.   If you think that government has a death grip on our nation – you need to take a better look at the Mega Corpse. 

You’re in my prayers Sarah.  I hope you find out you’re on the wrong side of this battle.  We could use your help. America’s children could use your help.  Next time you say "right to life" mean it.