PookaProtector

I'd like to point something out.

In 2011 I had cancer. Afterwards, I couldn't get insurance because no one would insure me. Thanks to "Obamacare," I am no longer uninsured.

So while I share your concerns about the federal gov't running health care, it's worked out well for me.

Also: the government paid your salary and now provides your benefits. Did you get paid on time? It seems a logical contradiction to talk shit about the government, when that government kept you alive. Amiright?

I was born with a disorder of which radial club hand is often one of the features. The incidence for that disorder is 1 : 30,000, so the odds might be something like that...

Thanks for the good wishes.

I absolutely agree that it has problems.

My argument wasn't "it's a good program." My argument was: "it has both positive and negative consequences."

If you need an editor, I'd be down to help. (I am a writer, too, and was born with VACTERL Association - but only one of my 2 arms has no radius)

Yeah, start with the optic nerve.

I can't see out of one eye because my optic nerve atrophied from lack of oxygen. And doctors can't fix that yet.

If you can figure that out, you'll be a Nobel candidate, I'd bet.