Buster and I have been without employee-provided insurance for a few years now. That is one of those things you don’t miss until you don’t have it anymore…insurance I mean. You take it for granted. You have a problem, you go to the Dr., you don’t even think about it.
When you don’t have insurance, you try to guage how sick you really are. Like, do I really need to see the Dr. for this or can I self medicate, or worse yet, see if it will go away on it’s own. It’s a terrible feeling. And private insurance (the kind you buy yourself through a company) is so expensive. I recently got some insurance quotes and they were astronomical compared to our income!!
Here’s to hoping none of us get the swine flu, or anything else for that matter!!
Be Blessed, Joanna
a lot of people are without insurance like you all, and it’s a shame.
… i hate seeing it happen. if it makes you feel better, we *have* employee insurance and it’s still not that great. we do the “gauging how sick we are” thing, too.
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