Universal Health Care

I was opposed to universal health care until this afternoon. I was not in favor of this proposed plan simply because I've heard some stories about it in other places. I had a doctor who worked in the UK who said he had the same patient every day simply because she thought he was cute. There was nothing wrong with this particular lady, but because she had access to a doctor she abused it. He told stories of the elderly worrying that they had every disease or that they were dying. The husband also convinced me that we might have to wait in long lines because we have fewer doctors than people living in the USA. It all made sense to me.

And then I went to pick up Ryan's prescription for GERD today and the lady says, "your total is $167.90."

"Is this a three month supply," I asked.

She didn't know so she went to find out. When she came back and informed me that our insurance no longer covered the meds, I wasn't too happy. In case you were wondering, we didn't purchase the meds. We left them there. There's no way that we could pay almost $200 every month (she also informed me that for some reason we were getting this at a discount and that the actual price is $205.25!).

We're waiting to see what the doctor says about what Ryan may be able to take in it's place. He was allergic to the wonderful $4 drug and we'd adjusted our small budget to fit in his needed med... now we don't know what we'll do.

It breaks my heart to think my kid needs a medicine and I can't afford it. Seriously does it cost them this much to make it? Drug companies are handing out samples of their latest work in doctor's offices, so why does this medicine cost so much? I just don't get it.

But I do get what people complain about when they say they just can't afford their meds. So, universal health care has my vote.

Insipiration

A few things have been inspiring me lately. The first is the Nie Nie Dialogues have really been an inspiration. These are the blogs of Stephanie Aurora Clark Nielson, a mother of four, a wife and a plane crash survivor, who was burned over 80 percent of her body. She's an inspiration because she could be wallowing in self pitty, but she, instead, always seems positive. Thanks Annie for the introduction!

My second insipration is fall. I love it. It's beautiful outside. Yesterday, we ended up at the apple orchard again and we took lots of photos.



On a completly different note, Timothy has begun sleeping in his big boy bed. He's doing quite well. We decided to move him from his crib because he was attempting to climb out. The fall would have been awful. The first two nights it took 40 minutes of repeatedly putting him back to bed to get him to stay. Last night it was just 15 minutes. He puts himself to bed for naps (this kid is awesome!)