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This is just about my filling out the application for medical insurance via the Affordable Care Act. I have not had any medical insurance since 1991 or so. That was while I worked at the University of Minnesota Law Library and lost my contract with them after I had finished working on the WESTLAW cataloging project.

I felt that I had to describe why I thought I had not been able to find any employment after 1991 and am hoping that they will also look into this. I have been selecting maybe 120 copies of documents I have sent or received. A lot of these are from US, state and governmental entities like some State Attorney Generals and victim assistance agencies.

If you have followed my posts on Talk of the Villages you know about the 2/24 1976 murder of my then high school teacher's daughter Michelle Mitchell. This happened in a garage across the street pretty much from the University of Nevada, Reno quite close to the nursing education buildings. Michelle had been a nursing student. The murderers of Michelle were trying to make it look like a serial killer was terrorizing Reno and had picked Michelle at random and hid in her back seat while she was doing something in the nursing buildings. Then they took her a few hundred yards and murdered her. They had had a life insurance interest on a woman they had murdered a few days before and were trying to cover up this murder of a black casino manager.

My birthday is 2-24. I turned 55 on 2-24-2014. Born in 1959 in Wisconsin. I still speak with a bit of a cheesehead accent.

As you may gather, this Michelle Mitchell murder was a huge media event in Reno especially because it was not solved until 1979. The murder of the black casino woman had not been connected to the Michelle Mitchell murder until 1979 when one of the conspirators bragged about the murders and the reason behind them, probably, to a fellow jail/prison inmate in Louisiana.

The case broke wide open. I never met Michelle Mitchell but anyone that had had been put under investigation for her murder. This included some of my classmates at Earl Wooster High School like John P. I had been having a quiet birthday celebration the Tuesday (?) night that Michelle Mitchell had been killed.

These Wooster High students had often looked to me for guidance partly because I had been kind of a teacher's pet for Mrs. Mitchell while I was in her remedial English class at Wooster. John P. and I had received small Scholarships in the name of Michelle Mitchell which I used for the 1976/1977 Semesters at the University of Nevada, Reno.

I had searched in libraries all over the Reno area to help my classmates perhaps cope with their feelings and the like but found next to nothing in any of these various libraries.

I started on a mission to do something about this huge niche but was met AFTER I had earned four degrees to give me some credibility with attacks on my mental health for going into detail abut what many in the law librarianship profession portrayed as my personal problems. A huge niche in services towards the group --victims of violent crimes-- which should be the MOST important group in the criminal justice system-- is hardly the personal problem of any one man. I did have some support at the University of Minnesota from some law professors and some students but not enough to keep my employment contract intact.

This kind of approach of putting a critic's mental health into issue made me mad not insane. But, I was pushed to elaborate lengths to do something about this niche.

My package I am sending to the ObamaCare people outlines how I was made out to look mentally ill just for fighting for the rights of again the group that should be of central importance to the criminal justice system.

Hopefully, this will get me medical insurance coverage which I have not had since 1991. I am basing it on the appearance of being mentally ill. I am not but certainly have faced quite a bit of depression for some making this so so hard a road. When someone with a huge amount of proportional power puts a label of mental illness on you just because you have a deep concern when the needs of a certain group are not really being adequately met it is very distressing for the person that goes through this.

If it does not get me the medical insurance I really need, maybe it will ignite more of a call for seriously addressing the needs of those who have been pulled into the legal system without any consent of their own. I do feel that something -- fate-- pulled me into this because of the 2-24 murder of Michelle Mitchell and how much of a role her mother Barbara Mitchell handed me in the way of standing up for what you believe in and never giving up no matter what the cost it might have to you. Of course, there have been huge costs to my immediate family in providing a home, bed, food, and some sense of hope. I seriously think I would not be alive now without their assistance. It has been a very hard fight for everyone in my immediate family.

I strongly agree with the need of the Affordable Care Act because they are many who have fallen through the cracks-- or were pushed through them like me.

Again, I hope this thread does not become political. It is more about the needs of the survivors/victims of crimes and my role in fighting for these.

I have been remiss about applying for jobs here in the Villages which would have stopped me from having to explain myself to the Federal government but there is still that huge gap in my employment record that any cautious potential employer would have some question about at some time. I am not particularly good at hiding things and most people can tell that I am hiding things. I want to make sure I do not come across as knocking the Villages, the various companies here, or especially TOTV. I have had a great quiet life here in the Villages since 2005 and have greatly enjoyed being on TOTV since 2007 or so.

Not having medical insurance, however, is a huge worry especially with someone who is now 55. My situation has caused depression at times but nothing I have not been able to handle. I did have a nervous breakdown in 2000 because of all the stress and probably because of much more sinister factors but I really do not have enough objectivity about that whole situation. Maybe, the OBamaCare people can also help with what happened there. The Pinellas County Sheriff's office did not seem to get it. I did go down to their headquarters around September 18, 2002 and reported what I had experienced and gave them a couple of hundred copies of letters I had received during my fight for respect for the needs of survivors/victims of crimes.