Do you remember Ben Sick and Misty Bus from school? Neither do I, but there they are in my sixth grade year book. It’s an old joke to show how some people are perpetually missing their year book picture. Which reminds me that I need to find my yearbooks so I know who in the hell is trying to be my friend on Facebook. But I digress this article is not about Facebook (but I do need to go into that someday) or yearbooks or even school. This is about Healthcare.
Yes, I know I have already done this blog, but if Ann Coulter (seriously funny) can do several blogs so can I. I dare you to shut me down you scary White House communists (MuHaHaHaHa……). Sorry I’m stuck on Halloween. This actually goes back to September when I caught my once a decade MegaCold that seems to not want to let me breathe without hacking all over everyone in sight. I made it about three weeks and decided that I needed a little medical help.
Woe is me I have no health insurance. What should I do? Where should I go? Contrary to all the reports (even on Fox News ) all poor people who cannot afford health insurance do not run to the emergency room at the nearest hospital and stiff them with the bill. I do, however, go to the closest IHC Instacare clinic (or urgent care clinic) which is not an emergency room. When I’m there they ask me if I will pay the whole amount today, only pay $60.00 and be billed the rest, or what to talk to a financial counselor. I go to the clinic about twice a year for cold symptoms or minor injuries. My visits this year have totaled approximately $200.00 not including medicine ($40.00 for two cough medicines $0 for the you have a cold go home).
Two hundred dollars was one month payment for health insurance. These health insurance costs are the same ones the Democrats are so hopped up about. They claim that health insurance companies are greedy while the President claims that my doctor wants to make more money by having a surgeon take out my tonsils (if only they had taken them out over thirty years ago maybe I wouldn’t have this problem today). But what I cannot understand, and if you know please tell me, these same Democrats want to force me to buy health insurance from those same greedy snake oil salesmen. Am I missing something?
My doctor for the visit left me with the impression that my cough was going bronchial and gave me a sample Advair while prescribing both daytime and nighttime cough medicine as well as a antibiotic in case the other stuff does not work (I actually think he may have thought I was seeking antibiotics, but I wasn’t). I have used up the inhaler and have taken the medicine until my cough subsided which makes the library patrons happier (I swear I do not have the swine flu). Meanwhile not being on top of looking in everyone of my paystub envelopes (I get direct deposit why should I pay attention to that?) I missed my free city flu jab.
Yes, I know you are shaking your head in disgust and are saying what if it just wasn’t that once a decade MegaCold what if it was something more horrible and involved a hospital stay. I say to you what a horrible thing to think about someone. Even so I would probably go into debt (on top of my credit card debt and soon to be mounting graduate school debt), but what is debt when it compares to being healthy? Seriously, I would rather to go into debt (does anybody really care about their credit score –if you do, you really need to sort your priorities) for my medical needs than pay taxes for some hypochondriac who goes to a doctor twice a week. Of course remember at this time I currently work part-time and do not make enough money to pay taxes. Better hope I get a good job after I get my Master’s. Maybe something with benefits.
