3 posts tagged “humor”

I really try not to just be "The Blog that Re-Posts Ted Rall Columns."  But then I succumb again. 

As a single head of household with a school age child, every few weeks I panic over healthcare (my most recent hyperventilation was over Thanksgiving when I fell and dropped so hard on my lower spine that I ripped through my clothes, tore my skin, and gave myself a very nasty bruise just from the force of impact... nothing broken, but the first thing I did was wiggle my toes. The second thing I did was think about my perpetual state of underinsurance.).  I have Blue Cross / Blue Shield, and I have a decent policy through an alumni group. They used to be one of the best providers in the country.  Now, they deny every claim; that's their opening gambit.

I should add that of my male relatives going back two generations, 4/6 were (one still is) an MD. (MD's are also bearing crazy insurance costs in the form of their malpractice premium, which rise and fall with insurance companies' investment returns (and not, actually, runaway jury awards).)

 250,000,000, INSURED BUT STILL IN TROUBLE

It's obviously outrageous that tens of millions of citizens of the wealthiest country to have ever existed in human history are one cluster of metastasizing cells away from bankruptcy. Did you know that 25 percent of mortgage foreclosures result from high medical bills?

But you really should read it for Ted Rall's wart story, at the end of the article.