looking for insurance on the exchanges if you have cancer

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Monday September 30, 2013 · 5:34 PM PDT

2013/09/30 · 17:34

Just got this in my email from my cancer support organization and wanted to share it for those who may be somewhat overwhelmed regarding coverage questions and costs.

This is a handy dandy checklist for those with cancer who are looking at insurance on the exchange from http://www.cancerinsurancechecklist.org/

Unfortunately, I had some issues downloading on my computer. I tried three times until I got it to work. Not sure what that is about.

shari

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Saturday September 24, 2011 · 1:01 PM PDT

2011/09/24 · 13:01

my biggest fear after getting my lymphoma diagnosis was losing the health insurance. well, it happened. my husband lost his job.

cobra, we realized, was just way too expensive, even to just cover me. unemployment doesn't really cover the basics, food/mortgage/utilities for us. We were going through our savings just to get through the month.

long story short, it has been seven very long months. thanks to President Obama and his Affordable Care Act, i'm now approved for real health insurance, the preexisting plan through the affordable care act. it will begin october 1st.

shari

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Thursday October 08, 2009 · 12:10 PM PDT

2009/10/08 · 12:10

I am stunned. The phone call from the MD was a surprise last night: the diagnosis is mycoides fungoides for that persistent rash I've had for years. It has been looking better, not as red, but never getting smaller.

The denial kicked in quick. I've always been in good health, I thought. It can't be right.

And what I can tell from late night net surfing is that MF is a T-cell lymphoma of the skin, not common. It could be worse but it's not curable. And with each thing I read, the symptoms, the photos, the signs, they all kick me in my gut as I realize slowly this might be true.

shari

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Tuesday January 20, 2009 · 10:53 AM PST

2009/01/20 · 10:53

I have recently come across a book of blessings, written from the depths of soulfulness by the mystic, former theologian, the late John O'Donohue. I had wanted to share this one earlier but with a sick child, didn't have a chance to get it out.

When I first read this blessing, I promptly copied it down in my journal. I was struck by how I have been hiding in what I thought was safety. But it is really a call to go out into the world with a renewed sense of adventure, with the awareness that this is not easy. But I think the world does want to see you out there, as an active and creative participant.

I wanted to share it because I think it is collectively for all of you, not only at Daily Kos but for you individually in the nation who have yearned and worked so hard for this, as we witness the inauguration of our new President.

The world, your world, our world, awaits us as we have been waiting for this.
Please join me in the jump.

shari

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Friday July 27, 2007 · 7:43 AM PDT

2007/07/27 · 07:43

Once again, the LA Times fails the publicby not providing the big picture context of Bush's rah rah talk in front of ALEC this month, by playing down the very very right-wing agenda of the organization Dubya spoke to this month, and by using language developed by the right-wing for propaganda.

shari

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Saturday November 18, 2006 · 6:33 AM PST

2006/11/18 · 06:33

Earlier this week, I caught the very conservative Investor's Business Daily (November 13, 2006) offering a strategy comment from Grover Norquist in their front page story titled: Conservatives Spar Over Iraq, Values After Stinging Loss. Sorry, no link.

Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, said social issues can be local concerns for Republicans, but don't have to go national.
"It's not reasonable to suggest that the pro-life issue in toto hurts Republicans. That's not true. It actually helps them," Norquist said. "you have to look at it district by district. You don't run an anti-stem cell candidate in downtown New York, but you want to have a right-to-life in a Catholic neighborhood or the South".

This is nothing new. Read More

Send a message to the NCLB Commission: Erase NCLB

shari

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Thursday May 18, 2006 · 6:15 PM PDT

2006/05/18 · 18:15

Via the ever subversive Susan Ohanian, I just found out about this (rare) piece of NCLB activism.

Author Debra Craig wants all of you who thinks NCLB is a huge mistake which needs to be erased to please send your erasers to Gov. Tommy Thompson, the head of the NCLB Commission, who just got quoted saying:

"Very few people say let's scrap the law altogether. That's a good sign."

She wants 1 million erasers sent to the dude before the commission meets again in 2007. That would be very good sign, indeed.
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AP sets it up for Spellings to come in and save the day

shari

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Friday April 21, 2006 · 6:22 AM PDT

2006/04/21 · 06:22

Woke up this morning to find how nicely AP's'loophole' piece played into the hands of Spellings.

Education Secretary Margaret Spellings is pledging to scrutinize a loophole that allows states to exclude nearly 2 million student test scores under the No Child Left Behind Act.

Oh boy. More heroic Spellings here.

"Do we need to move forward to include more and more children all the time? Yes, we do. I think you'll see we're going to continue to look at that issue," she said.

I have a question. Does anyone remember Armstrong Williams?
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NCLB: Increased segregation?

shari

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Tuesday April 18, 2006 · 11:51 PM PDT

2006/04/18 · 23:51

AP does a better job in this pieceon NCLB.

Another unintended solution, experts say, is for schools to become less diverse.
"The really rich and ritzy suburbs that don't participate in any form of integration, that turn their backs on all efforts to admit minority kids or low-income kids into their first-rate public schools, those districts aren't going to suffer at all," said Jonathan Kozol, an educator and author of several acclaimed books on race and education.
"They're going to be rewarded for their selfishness. They're going to be rewarded for their racial insularity because they're not admitting any kids who are at any academic risk. They're not admitting any kids who had been previously studying, for perhaps the first six years of school, in a rotten, overcrowded school."

My opinion, as I've written before: NCLB is revolutionary piece of structural legislation, designed to (very) quietly install a form of corporate 'school choice', which will, yes, quite likely result in increased segregation.
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School choice = Increased segregation?

shari

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Monday April 03, 2006 · 8:11 PM PDT

2006/04/03 · 20:11

Getting back to this Guardian piece on the relationship between social class and how kids do in school (blogged here), I was struck by this warning regarding the connection between school choice and segregation.

Webber and Butler warn that introducing further freedoms for schools, as the government is, may allow middle-class parents and schools to choose each other, leaving those from poorer backgrounds stranded in an increasingly segregated system.

Here lies still another reason why I haven't been a fan of charter schools nor of the whole school choice concept, a standard wishlist mantra of the corporate tribal clan now in power. Read More

Zinn: Why were so many so easily fooled?

shari

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Wednesday March 22, 2006 · 9:09 AM PST

2006/03/22 · 09:09

Here I'm echoing Cyndy at mousemusings who points out this gem of an article penned by Howard Zinn titled "America's Blinders".

I always find asking "why" a horribly difficult question with no easy answers especially when it comes to explaining human behavior.

So I love that Zinn is able to pinpoint these two dynamics inherent to our current collective American psyche:

our lack of historical perspective and
a stark moral superiority.

This is required reading, my opinion.

The solution? Read More

Attacking back: see how Barbara Ehrenreich does it

shari

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Saturday March 18, 2006 · 9:13 PM PST

2006/03/18 · 21:13

Today I'm happy to see this good response by Barbara Ehrenreich, of the Nickle and Dimed fame, now under attack by Dobson et al who has labelled her as a "homewrecker".

Barbara doesn't miss a beat. She niftily pinpoints what was projected onto her and blasts back, countering that the real homewreckers are corporations whose policies don't provide adequate wages, requiring workers to work long hours and/or work two jobs or more.

What she does works well. My hope: let there be tons more responses like Barbara's out there.

A second point: this attack on her is a good illustration of a key attack strategy the corporate-Republican tribe uses, namely projection.

But first, to clarify, I'm referring to projection as the psychological defense mechanism, as defined below. Read More

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A blessing for us all..."For a new beginning"

LA Times Fails Public in Reporting Dubya's Speech to ALEC

Norquist reminds his constituents to continue to focus locally

Send a message to the NCLB Commission: Erase NCLB

AP sets it up for Spellings to come in and save the day

NCLB: Increased segregation?

School choice = Increased segregation?

Zinn: Why were so many so easily fooled?

Attacking back: see how Barbara Ehrenreich does it