Most of us here have spent many hours writing, emailing, or calling our Representatives and Senators in regard to health care reform. By most accounts there is a solid majority that want, indeed need, substantive reform; and yet, if the media is to be believed, we are losing that argument.
My story is just another one to be added to the list of those SOL journals. One month after I was dropped from "full time" to "part time" at the grocery store where I worked (same number of hours btw) and lost my health care I ended up in the emergency room at Wishard Hospital and spent the next 30 days in ICU. Shortly after returning home the bills came. 1,000 for this, 2,000 for that, adding up to about 12,000 dollars...then came the big bill for $60,000. Try working on those bills on a grocery clerk's salary. Due to my physical condition I was forced into early retirement. Keeping my fingers crossed, I will be on Medicare early next year.
This is not meant to be a meta post, but I would like to point some fingers (and no, not that finger alone).
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