{"id":29,"date":"2009-11-27T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetgirlies.net\/2009\/11\/27\/thanksgiving-insurance\/"},"modified":"2009-11-27T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T15:25:00","slug":"thanksgiving-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetgirlies.net\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am very grumpy today. I was very grumpy yesterday. Jake and I were not looking forward to Thanksgiving very much because we knew what would happen…the girls would not even be mentioned, acknowledged, anything. And that is exactly what happened. It was a pretty awkward situation so Jake and I just kind of kept to ourselves, even when the topic of universal healthcare came up. I appreciate and understand everybody’s opinions on universal healthcare, but there are a few problems with bringing it up at a family function:<\/p>\n

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  1. Don’t bring it up at Thanksgiving. It’s a sensitive topic and there are too many people with too differing opinions and it just makes for bad conversation.<\/li>\n
  2. Don’t bring it up around your son and daughter-in-law because you have no idea. You have had insurance steadily for the past humpteen years. We were so incredibly lucky to have insurance when the girls were sick. In the one month that they were ill, we racked up over $60,000 in medical bills. Thankfully, we’ve only had to pay a fraction of that, but if we hadn’t had insurance at that time, we would not be surviving.<\/li>\n
  3. Don’t bring it up around people that you know are losing their insurance in a few short months. The idea of us not having insurance scares the crap out of us and we have told you how upset we are about it, but thank you for being selfish and only thinking of yourself and how universal healthcare will raise your taxes and bankrupt the country. Thank you so much.<\/li>\n
  4. Don’t bring it up to people that are about to lose their insurance even if they have pre-existing conditions. If there is even a 10 minute lapse in coverage, our pre-existing conditions will not be covered for at least a year, if not longer, so if my eyeball explodes at Thanksgiving next year and lands in your mashed potatoes, please don’t be mad…it’s what you wanted.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    Sorry to go off on such a tangent, but seriously, some conversations are better left for other venues.<\/div>\n
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    I do want to thank Sean and Elly for being awesome cousins and talking to us and making us feel welcome. You were a ray of light on an otherwise very dark day.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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