text: Part 1) My healthcare was affordable and attainable under both Bush's, Clinton, and Obama, even during times of unemployment and under-employment.....and not one iota of that healthcare came through government means. Matter of fact, one of those periods of underemployment came when Obama first took office, and when our payroll checks came to us with a 5% FICA hit out of nowhere, HR told us it was mandates of the new administration and there was nothing they could do about it. To add insult, one of Obama's promises was a cap on pharmaceuticals; a big deal to our household since we deal with chronic auto-immune related diseases and those meds can easily swallow half a salary. Obama caved in to the pharmaceutical lobbyists and that promise simply disappeared. Who came to the rescue? The pharmaceutical company that made the drug we relied on; they accepted what pittance our insurance paid and wrote off the rest......