VISIT FROM A FRIEND

Last week the young man who had done a lot of odd jobs for us stopped by just to say hello. He explained he’s been working nearby and felt guilty for not contacting us for a while.

We were surprised to see that he had lost a great deal of weight. He explained he’d broken his collarbone and had other issues as well. However, his worst news was that his wife was in the hospital and she had been there for three weeks, because of a blood disorder which the doctors couldn’t diagnose. Leukemia was not seen as the problem.

Then he gave us another surprise, being self-employed he’d had no health insurance, so he had signed up for insurance under the Affordable Care Act. (Obamacare, as Republicans like to call it) And luckily for him, it went into effect right before his accident and his wife’s hospitalization. He was totally thankful.

I really don’t have to tell you, do I, that when he worked for us, I asked and he said yes, he was a Republican.