Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Personal Reasons

One of the main reasons I am for universal healthcare is that there was a time when I couldn't afford insurance (we still can't on our own, but Best Buy has amazing benefits).

In 2006 we decided that it would be a good time to return to college and finish my degree. Tiffany had just finished graduate school and with the wedding over it seem like a good idea. A few months later, due to cold nights with no heater or TV ;), I was a college student with a part-time job at Bealls and Tiffany was pregnant with a part-time job at JC Penny.

We were lucky that I got my old job back when we moved back to Austin, but insurance was still way too expensive for us to afford. Not to mention that private insurance won't cover a woman who is already pregnant. If it wasn't for Medicaid we could never have afforded to pay off the hospital bills while we were also paying off loans.

It's not that Tiffany and I are horrible people taking advantage of the system - we legitimately needed help that would not have come from any other source. For that I am thankful, and I am glad that our government realizes that sometimes people just need a little help to get by.

1 comment:

Kyle, Tiffany, Samantha and ChristopherMarch 24, 2010 at 12:43 PM
Excuse me... I worked full time at JCPenney.
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