BLADDER CANCER patient letter TO OBAMA

My letter to Obama:

If all you stand for is "bipartisanship and compromise", then you don't stand for anything.

I am a gay man with recurring bladder cancer. When the first instance occurred, I was self-employed and carrying private insurance which, after paying over $15,000 in premiums, promptly cancelled me when I became ill, $50 before I reached my $10,000 deductible.
I was fortunate to find a job which offered health insurance, however, I am facing a future where when my cancer progresses to a point where I can no longer work, I face the choice of continuing to receive treatment and leaving my partner of 26 years destitute when I die, or declining treatment in order to die more quickly without bankrupting my partner.

While I was horrified at the McClurkin pandering incident during your campaign, I made the decision to look past it, housing your campaign volunteers in my home, feeding them and offering financial support to the local organization to get you elected.

When you made the decision to spit on the gay supporters who helped you get elected by having Rick Warren at your inaugural, I again swallowed hard for "the larger agenda."

When you abandoned all of the rest of your gay human rights campaign positions regarding DOMA and DADT and hate crimes to "save the political capital", I fought with my friends to defend you, stating that health care was more important and I would be satisfied to wait and hope I lived long enough to get equivalent human rights to a straight person, as long as you got health care right.

Today, you and your minions raised the white flag on health care: no need for a public option much less a single payer system, you will declare whatever bill congress shits out to be a victory.

The only “change” that reflects is that your predecessor was effective in getting what he said he stood for, and you are not. And the spin is more insulting than anything Karl Rove ever spewed. No harsh words for the republicans who have successfully and publicly played you for a fool - they "have an honest difference of opinion." But plenty of mockery from your chief of staff and cabinet for the people who were stupid enough to believe your progressive bullshit during the campaign.

And that makes me sicker than my chemotherapy.

Walter from Indiana

although it is very sorry I do not have original placement of the quote.

I have to think there's a good chance he might get it. If that is your intention. I hope you'll consider it, because I believe what you've expressed here needs to be read by the President.

to respond to it better than the way he responded to the pleas of decordated gay soldiers being dishonorably discharged from the service because of don;t ask don;t tell.

And I too have felt the same disappointment in many of his policy decisions, and like you held on hope for the big one, healthcare, so that my American husband could remain in his country, after a lifetime of being employed and paying into health insurance, to get treatment for his heart.

I'm still holding out hope as things seem to bounce back and forth from day to day, but we shall see.

Hang in there my friend, hopefully it's not over...yet.

Nor need it be, if we become as vocal as the opposition but not as obnoxious.

I wish you well.

Pls contact, Madashelldoctors.com and tell them your story for the record. I don't know if they can, but perhaps they can help.
Great group. & Tell them I sent you.

is not my letter but you are a very kind soul!