What good money gets you Or will they let you give them your good money?

It is late night again as I put fluid thoughts onto this electric screen. We have the best health insurance that good money can buy although these days that same good money buy less and less coverage as insurance companies increase their premiums to offset the increased cost of these services they provide. Congress has proposed many times for small businesses and Business in general to cover the cost of health-care for the employees.. They have got to be kidding right? No matter what they tell you small business can’t handle that.. We the taxpayers already pay for the indigents health-care through our taxes that pay for both the Government programs and the cost of our inflated stays at a hospital.. the cost of the uninsured has to be paid somehow.. Does a hospital bed really cost $100.00 a night? In examining health-care and insurance if is always a good idea to look behind the retoric…

For those of you reading this you may ask why I have such passionate feel for this subject.. you only have to step into the shoes of my life.. I was born with a congenital condition which is Cerebral Palsy a condition that gives me the mark of an Automatic decline on Insurance.. This last week I went with my wife to look into Long Term Care insurance, and sadly folks I don’t even get to look at it.. I am automatically declined.. Who are they to decide if I am worthy, or for that matter anyone else? Sometimes you can have money to afford it, and still it isn’t enough… Pre-existing Conditions are a killer for Insurance coverage…

David

And what shall we do with that which we choose to Ignore?

Another day goes by and somewhere out there is someone who ether doesn’t have insurance or Does not qualify for coverage? Both conditions are just as disasterious to the individual as believing the bullets in the gun that is pointed at you won’t kill you. It is a funny thing in life that we all believe that health is forever, but the reality is not always the way it is… Is it?

The Ignored Invisible…

In life there are always choices some you like some you don’t.. I just can’t be quiet anymore. I have worked hard in my life to be more than the limitations of my physical body.. I have risen to my position in life through opportunity and good choices that I have made with the information that I have on hand.. I like it that way.. Give me an opportunity and I will make something of it. There is one area of my life that the choices were made for me without thought or regard for my welfare. It is that I am declined on most insurance because of a birth defect that I was born with and it is Cerebral Palsy. Somehow don’t remember getting the questionnaire about being Disfranchised from the chosen worthy of those that don’t push the % over the mythical number of acceptable risk. And my complaint is but a small tip of the iceberg the we call the uninsured and the separate but equal category of the uninsurable. In this blog you and I will have a conversation about the many aspects and myths of this complex issue that affects over 47 million and climbing uninsured.. It may also interest you to know that 75 million more people are under-insured and that number too grows daily.. In April, Cover the uninsured will attempt to put a spotlight on this issue but I fear that it will fall upon those all too deaf ears. http://covertheuninsured.org

Why is it always the case that we need the Iconic Wisdom of Solomon to get our attention. Whose child or relation is put to the sword of who is worthy and who is not?

David