Thank you for your sympathy. The reason I cannot obtain health care insurance is risk. A large majority of the people with my type of depression commit suicide each year; no insurer is going to roll those dice.
The type of depression I have is serious, but responds well to treatment. I lived with it for 35 years without treatment of any kind. Thankfully, God strengthened me over during those years, allowing me to live to become a father. I have a happy, wonderful life today.
But my wife and I still live in fear of illness or injury. If one of us is seriously hurt or becomes sick, that’s it for us. With no insurance, the cost of even routine treatment will destroy us. We could lose our house, our car, everything.
As I said: I oppose Obamacare. But something has to be done. The “invisible hand” of the marketplace has swept me into the gutter with the rest of the trash. If I become sick or ill, how am I to live to care for Baby Chan?
The libertarians and Objectivists on FR have a solution: “Get well on your own or drop dead”. But some things cannot be left to the vagaries of free market. Human life is one of those things. I don’t know what the solution to the problem is in this case, but I do know that something has to change.
Anyway... yeah, I don't know what the solution is but the current system is not good and I don't think Obama's meddling is going to make it any better. I sometimes think the problems started with insurance companies. But I'm not really sure how.