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Why do they have to eat!

I really enjoy cooking but with the food challenges of my children, schedules, and cash flow, sometimes food becomes downright frustrating. The past couple of weeks I have carefully planned our meals and shopping trips. The result was that we ate happily on healthy meals of salmon and ribs less expensively than coping out on busy nights with McDonald’s and Chick Fillet.

However, I look at the clock (1pm) and note that Tommy has to be in BFE at 6pm albeit he gets feed at his youth group tonight. We are still on 1 car since I haven’t made the time to replace the water pump on the Jeep and the afternoon schedule involves me being at the elementary school around 2:30, Sarah being picked up from school at 4:45, and Tommy’s jaunt to Lenior City beginning at 5:30. Ah! Looks like leftover ribs, salmon, and, for the non-eaters, fish sticks tonight!

(fish sticks cook in 8 minutes btw!)

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Uninsured is scary!

Of working-age U.S. residents who sought individual health coverage in the last three years, 89% were rejected for medical reasons or felt that the available plans were unaffordable[Source]

The problem is deeper than just cost. Quality of services is impacted when you don’t have insurance. When you say "cash pay" at a doctor’s office they sneer at you, make you wait longer, then let the interns experiment and get their experience on you while the insured go straight to doctors with less wait. Being uninsured isn’t just a financial problem, it is in iteself a health problem. The stigma of being uninsured is daunting despite 42.6 million American people (10million being children) being uninsured [Source – US Census Bureau] and those figures are 1998-99.