MS, Obamacare, and my story

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Friday October 05, 2012 · 4:56 PM PDT

2012/10/05 · 16:56

Hello all. It’s been a while since I’ve written a diary, but I need to vent and I’m hoping a few people hear my story and why I need Obamacare.

It all started back in March. I was leaving my old job (I really didn’t like it), and fortunately had the option to pay into COBRA. My folks helped me out, and I stay covered under their (actually fairly good) insurance. This saved my bacon, as we’ll soon see.

Shortly after leaving it I left for Canada to spend time with my girlfriend. Sometime in mid-May, my appetite left me completely. Even the thought of eating made me want to vomit. I went to the ER there (expensive for non-Canadian) and they said it was just reflux and sent me on my way.

It was not reflux.

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Monday November 01, 2010 · 5:26 PM PDT

2010/11/01 · 17:26

Hey everyone, I finally posted a diary! And… it’s totally not the subject matter I had in mind for my first diary! I was going to write about making stuff in America, and I still plan to, but something came up.

You see, I have a good friend who is a tea partier. Some of the fun in our friendship is the ability to trade jabs back and forth on political topics. We actually find common ground sometimes; it’s amazing! But something recently said by her prompted me to really sit down and write a long response. It was about social security, and her argument was that she would better invest the money she was paying into social security in the private market, and it was in response to me saying that the far right wanted to eliminate social security. To my surprise, she was actually in favor of doing away with social security.

I can’t just let that sit. I wanted to put up my work for some peer review before I send it off, and this seemed like the natural place to post it. I’ll be watching the comments, and if anyone has some constructive criticism I’d greatly appreciate the feedback! (She also was talking about the Department of Education, and I mentioned the EPA in our conversation. So I included bits about them, too.)

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