From TPM Reader SJ, a side of the health care insurance struggle that I suspect is almost wholly invisible to most of the people who dominate the public conversation on this issue …
I’d like to add my two cents to this discussion because I feel like my family’s situation is something that often gets missed.
My wife and I have two children, ages 4 and almost 2. I’m an educator not working under contract and my wife works in agriculture. We’re very, very grateful that we are currently insured via BadgerCare, Wisconsin’s Medicaid program for low income families. We don’t use it much, save the shots and check-ups for the kiddos. But it’s a godsend, a just-in-case sort of comfort.
Damn. That’s all I got. One of the greats.
Cont. …
It was back in the early or maybe mid- 1980s when the Velvet Underground albums were reissued for the first time since their original release in the very late 60s and 1970. I’m not certain but I think I read about this momentous news in Rolling Stone and that it was a really big deal, that all the real music aficionados had been holding on to almost totally played out originals for 15 years or more. But they were coming. And soon.
TPM Reader BN explains why those dropped policies are often a good thing …
I live in a state with its own exchange and don’t need the subsidy, so I don’t have any experience with the federal exchange, but I think my experience is still relevant to the overall discussion.
From TPM Reader CP on our Real Lives series …
I don’t hear many people discussing the fact that you can enroll in the federal exchange via the 800 number and can bypass trying to fill out the application form on the web site. After hitting the glitches on the web site, I called the 800 number and got through right away. A very professional woman enrolled me and said I should be receiving the comparison charts for healthcare plans in the regular mail within two weeks. I called back a couple of times to double-check on that and to ask a question or two and immediately got through each time I called.
