Battered woman

I haven't posted in a long time- what can I say, I've been busy! But lately I've been feeling battered by politics and I have to vent. As a polysci major I can't believe I'm saying this, but I miss the days of apathy. I long for the days when I could go a whole week without having politics forced into my conciousness. It's completely stressing me out and there's no where I can turn to get away from it all... unless I become a hermit and don't even talk to my friends.
I don't have regular health insurance, I can't get regular health insurance. I get minimum care through the VA, but it's hard to get to see a doctor because the waits are so long. Our clinic has been way too small for more than 10 years, but every time they talk about expanding someone else decides that the VA doesn't need all that money and takes funding away. So I can't just make an appointment if I'm sick because by the time I saw the doctor I'd either be better or dead. My only option is to go to their sick call and wait until I can be seen. The last time I did that I got there at 8am and wasn't seen until after 1pm. I'd like to have an alternative to that, but due to preexisting conditions (carpal tunnel syndrome- thank you US Navy! and hypothyroidism, both of which have been and will be cared for by the VA) I can't get insurance on my own without paying an exhorbitant amount of money. Even without listing preexisting conditions insurance for myself and my family is over $1000- twice our mortgage and about 1/4 of my husband's annual salary. The only way we can afford insurance is if we stopped paying most of our other bills and only paid for health insurance. And that's not including dental, which is the health coverage my husband and I really need.
So we go without, and we hope that reform passes, and we do what we can to tell other people why we want reform passed. And yet what do I get shoved in my face day after day? People who tell me that it's my own damn fault that I don't have health insurance, that they have great insurance, that I don't deserve to have health insurance, that they aren't paying for my health coverage, that they don't want one cent coming out of their pockets to help keep me healthy. What I end up hearing is- you might as well die because we don't care about you. As a human, as a Christian, I just cannot understand that attitude, especially when the people saying it are supposed to be Christians!!! It makes me so incredibly depressed that as a nation we have gotten so selfish that we would rather watch other people get sick and die than be willing to give up a couple of dollars out of our pockets to help care for them.