Healthcare for all, and for all a good night

The end of the year is fast approaching and it brings to mind images of Christmas with the family, warm hot cocoa, wrapping up in your favorite blanket, and healthcare. Yes healthcare. With the deadline fast approaching people are not only frantically shopping for presents for their family but are frantically shopping for healthcare. The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) has had a rocky start to say the least, with the website crashing or failing to work properly and personal information being sent to the wrong people. Yet despite all these set backs people have finally been able to get healthcare they need.

One such individual from the Northwest is finally able to get health insurance despite his pre existing condition. He has a rare condition known as Anthropophobia Magnapede, a condition that causes him to be antisocial and very self conscience about his unusually large feet. Yes this person is Bigfoot. Bigfoot, or Sasquatch as he prefers to be called, has been approved for Healthcare. We tried to reach Sasquatch for comments on this but as we got close to him he bounded off into a fog.

This news may come as a surprise to many but we interviewed a few locals who have met with Mr. Sasquatch and one of them had this to say “I think it is great that he can get health insurance, I mean the president did say it was available to everyone.”

Another local said “I can’t believe he got approved, I know he makes a lot of money from the documentaries and the tourist attractions.”

Despite his income and local celebrity it would still be hard for someone with a pre existing condition like his to attain affordable healthcare prior to Obamacare. Now Sasquatch will be able to see a doctor whenever he needs to. He will be able to get care for his feet, which will help him find a full time job. He will be able to get help with his antisocial behavior so he can live a full and healthy life. This story is just one of a vast number of stories in which the Affordable Health Care Act has giving new hope and a second chance for someone who thought they would never get one.

Healthcare should be available to everyone, from the child who has the flu to someone battling cancer, to a lonely figure too embarrassed about his large feet to function in the rest of society. So while we are counting our blessing this years let us all be thankful that we can get the care we all need.