Open Letter to Widowed Congresswoman Sandy Adams RE More Magazine 2012 Interview

Hello,

I very much enjoyed reading your survivor story in More Magazine's March 2012 edition.  I loved how you told your second husband to get permission from his mom prior to accepting his hand.  I was saddened to read that you lost such a dear soon after; but fortunately, your current husband sounds like a gem too. 

The only issue that bothered me was your seeming resistance to universal health care.  In the article, you note that health insurance was an issue for you and your daughter.  America provides some form of  health care for the elderly and the poor.  It's only reasonable that people who work full time (even though it may be through a combination of jobs) should also be covered.  I wonder how many times, while you worked & struggled to get your education,  while it was just you and your daughter, did you fail to take her or yourself to the doctor because you could not afford it? I believe that if everyone (including employers) puts money into a big pot,everyone can get at least basic health care. Those who can afford it, can put in extra for extra services.  If third world countries can do it, why not the greatest country on earth?

A widower's tale.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/fashion/watching-them-watching-me.html?_r=1&hp

Innovate

Hero Died From Wrong Hand

Here is an awful story of how an hero ATF-military man tried to stop a robbery and was killed by "friendly fire" while his wife and child waited in the car!  How awful!  Can you imagine how wives of other potential heroes will try to stop their husbands for fear of the same thing happening? How many robbery victims will lose their lives because of events like this?

What a jerk

We go through the hell of losing our husbands.  We sign up for social security, welfare, medicaid, or whatever.  According to santorum and ron paul, we are dragging the country down and we should be cut off.  Really?  Sure it would be great if our husbands had left us with million dollar insurance policies, but what if they were just regular dads: artists, soldiers, laborers? They worked and paid into the system, in part, for the care of their families.  Can these fools seriously try to assert that widowed, single mothers are dead beat drains to America?

So horrible that he quit on her

A widow can save her children when there father is taken, but it's so much harder, maybe even impossible, to save them when he just decides to quit and  "leave."

God bless her! So many come to take advantage of us. We must fight

I know first hand how horrible it is to be scared and alone with a baby.  Let the evil attackers rot in hell!

A widow with a new empty nest of a different sort.