Remembering
Today would have been the seventh blogiversary™ for Collective Sigh.
Andante, Melanie, and Jim are just three of the thousands who have died in this country because they couldn’t afford health care when they needed it.
And yet, people act surprised that I am so angry at the Democrats who blew a golden, once-in-a-generation opportunity to fix the problem, and sold out to the drug companies and health insurance companies instead.
The process is known as triage in the medical world, treat the most serious problem first. If you are dead, nothing else matters. Think about that.
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I’m surprised when I find a person who’d be surprised that someone could be angry at the Democrats for their recent track record.
Some might find this strange, given that I never knew Andante personally, and not very long in *Blog World* before she passed, but I do miss her. Every time I stop by here. I stop at the icon of Andante you have at the top and pause and say “Thank you.” She was a fighter, and a very sane voice of reason. I’m glad she enjoyed or found useful some of the links I posted for her, and angry/sad that they didn’t do much good in the end.
I too blame your *system*. For Andante and so many others! I expect this from some war torn third World country, not from a Country that always claims the moral high-ground, and is supposedly so *advanced in all things*. It’s pure hypocrisy and very immoral.
RIP Andante, and thanks.
The Obama cult still thrives, Frederick. It is amazing the lengths to which some people will go to justify their choices. I’ve always believed that it is best to admit your errors and move beyond them. When you do that no one remembers your mistakes. If you refuse to admit it, no one forgets.
Health care was one of her major issues, Kryten, even before she lost her insurance because of her husband being laid off by a factory closing. She fought for it beyond just blogging because it was a major problem where she lived.
She cared.
sigh.
i miss her too, even though i didn’t discover her blog until fairly recently.
She cared.
this was shiningly obvious in everything she wrote, which is probably the biggest reason why i fell in love with her and her blog both.
She was involved in a lot of things that she never mentioned on the blog. As former military brats, it was like we graduated from high school together, although the schools were thousands of miles apart. We fought the Tricare wars to take care of our mothers and shared resources that we encountered.
She was good people.
Andante was very good people indeed, and is still sorely missed.