Planning The Unpredictable

I noticed someone found my blog by googling the cost of MS. I think we all know the cost of MS is huge. The question is were they asking about the cost in financial, emotional or physical terms. I decided I would show the cost of MS for the 6 months in [...]

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Part of the bailout plan was the Mental Health Parity Act. It basically says that mental health illnesses should be treated as a medical problem and have equal coverage under your health insurance. A lot of insurance companies either don’t cover mental health at all or have a limit of what is covered. [...]

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In tonights debate, Palin said this:
IFILL: Governor, are you interested in defending Sen. McCain’s health care plan?
PALIN: I am because he’s got a good health care plan that is detailed. And I want to give you a couple details on that. He’s proposing a $5,000 tax credit for families so that they can get out [...]

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Palin might be smarter than she looks. She did not answer any questions related to McCain’s article suggesting the solution is to deregulate the health insurance market. This was not the best timing to tell the American people that you want to deregulate their health insurance. We have now all seen and [...]

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I have been waiting for this debate for a while. Tom and I have planned a dinner of Indian food and I have the debate recording in HD. I hope McCain doesn’t disappoint all American’s by being too chicken shit to show up. If he ditches the American People… at least we [...]

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My family and some friends read this blog so I urge those thinking about voting for McCain to think again. The Wall Street Journal had an article on Monday about McCain’s ideas on how to change the health insurance market. Here are the points made in the article:
McCain’s “Plan”
McCain’s health plan would cover [...]

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Since I am in the land of free health care… it is interesting that this weeks theme for Carnival of MS Bloggers is about insurance. Since going blind in May, my insurance has paid out the following:
1,500 for the Eye doctor
1,000 for the Neuro doctor
2,500 for the MRI
1,000 for the Neuro doctor
500 for the [...]

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My sharps container was full so we set out on Saturday to find out what to do with this thing. Interestingly enough, the waste management place is 5 miles away and it was free! I haven’t been to the dump so I was a kid so it was quite a smelly experience. [...]

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I have been having panic attacks for a couple days now. I am guessing that it is due to my medication showing up this week. I am freaked out by the idea of giving myself injections daily. I know the panic attacks won’t go away until I start the injections so it’s [...]

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Well, the Copaxone prescription is moving along. I received my auto-injector today in the mail. I am not sure I am an auto-injector kind of girl but I will try it. I have a feeling I will like the manual way but we will see. I have no idea how it [...]

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