What Would You Do For Free Health Care?

I watched the Michael Moore movie “Sicko” last night. I should have watched it sooner.

Since 2005 when my son was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, I have spent every minute of every day worried about health care, and worse, health insurance. Now I feel like an idiot. What am I doing in this country? Being born here is only so much of an excuse.

Just knowing that the prisoners at Gitmo are getting free, state-of-the-art medical care is enough reason for me to leave this pitiful excuse for a health care system behind.

I just lost my job. I have six months of unemployment coming to me. My son is 16, and too sick to keep his grades up.  Why not withdraw him from high school? His plan is to get better (hopefully through surgery), get a GED and go on to college for web design.

But he has to get better. My husband and I have been working our asses off for two years to pay for insurance that may or not pay the doctors, who have taken their sweet time running tests and trying medications that have not worked. Medications that costs more than I will ever have. To think that in France, or even Cuba, my son would be treated like a human being with an illness. Not an insurance card.

My husband wants to stay here and work, and we are having problems anyway. So why not just go? Why not just drive from Alabama to Canada and start over? I can get a job. I have nothing to lose at this point, except money and time. And I’ve spent both on less important things.

Anyone got advice on this?