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Yeah, insurance is weird.
Jawa Girl has a chronic condition (no, being saddled with me as her husband isn't it). Fortunately, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts offers some decent plans, but when I was enrolling last year (before I even proposed, mind you), I had to look at the plans in terms of what was offered for families, and what kind of pre-existing condition issues were present. One wrong move, and you're stuck for a year or more. That's bad enough when you're perfectly healthy, but throw a kid (who might do kidlike things like get sick or break a bone) or a chronic condition into the mix and it's the sort of thing that could end in financial disaster. The person who handles bennies here at MCLA was very patient, and I'm sure my questions didn't sound very intelligent (remember, kids - a Ph.D. in music theory means you only know about transformation networks, not insurance networks).
I don't begrudge people making money - heck, I'm glad to actually be making some for a change - but you have to wonder how long health care costs are going to keep going through the roof. I don't see the doctors making more off of our current system, and I don't see most insurance company employees making more. I'm not sure that the health and well-being of Americans should be a second priority to CEOs making absurd amounts of money,
But that's just me, crazy ol' economic populist that I am. I don't mind people making money (even CEOs), but I'd like to see more people have a better shot at, in the words of our esteemed lame-duck President, "mak[ing] the pie higher."
WF
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