One thing that sucks about losing your job is losing your health insurance. Especially if you have a pre-existing condition and had back surgery less than a year ago. You just know, without even checking, that no one is going to give you individual insurance.
There is a natural inclination to just slide. What’s the worst that could happen? Surely you’ll get a job soon. Just stay away from power tools and you’ll be ok.
Except when you’re not. On Monday, we found out my step-daughter has pneumonia. Sometimes these things just happen. I wonder what the $75 cocktail of medicine would have cost without insurance—not to mention the doctor’s visit and chest x-rays.
A sidebar that could be a post all on its own, my step-daughter concocted a nirvana alternate universe in the car on the way to the doctor’s office. No one ever gets sick. Your skin is too strong to get hurt. You don’t need surgery on your back like Dad or on your shoulder like Aunt Dolly. And doctors and nurses and other medical professions only exist for when you’re going to have a baby or when you need a check-up…but that’s just for your weight and stuff. Also? No need for health insurance or those ugly brick office buildings. Those were added due to my prompts.
Being my mother’s daughter (read: a worrier), I asked my boss how much it would cost to add my husband on my insurance. For the both of us it would cost—get this—$666.
I think that says it all.
We don’t know if we can afford it or not. But maybe the question is: Can we afford not to?
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Breakfast: Sweet Potato & Banana with nuts: 54 cents
Snack: 7 ounces of plain yogurt, blueberries, old granola leftover from a McDonalds's fruit and yogurt parfait: 49 cents
Lunch: Pumpkin Polenta with Beans & Greens: 70 cents
Snack: 2 stalks of celery, 1 triangle of Laughing Cow & some tapenade: 98 cents
Dinner: 1/4 chicken breast, sweet potato patty: $1.50
Total $4.21
There is a lot of hold-over expensive food (tapenade, cage-free chicken) that I'm trying to account for here so I'm probably not extremely accurate. But it is my best guess while not trying to under-estimate.
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