Dairy Cows, Potatoes, and a Preexisting Condition
My family’s experience might give some perspective on your most recent two topics, farms and health care.
My husband is a fourth-generation farmer, and he and his two uncles milk 110 dairy cows and plant 100 acres of potatoes. My husband’s alarm goes off at 4:30 a.m., and on a good day he’ll be back in the house by 7 p.m.
I work part time as a medical assistant. My job is extremely flexible and lets me put my family first without making me feel guilty. I needed this option as I am the one who stays home when the kids are sick.
Our kids are on Medicaid as we don’t make enough money for them to be on our plan. I was embarrassed they were on Medicaid. I didn’t want to use it. I felt poor. I felt like we were failures.
The ACA is the only means of insurance for us. The farm doesn’t offer any, and the premium for my job offers is so high I’d lose money by taking it. I also have a preexisting condition (epilepsy) and need insurance.
Kayla
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Kayla, I hear you and wish that our country was better set up to give it's citizens a better way to address the health issues that so many Americans face on a daily basis. So many Americans are willing to work but inflation robs their pocket book so much that the dollar just doesn't always stretch far enough to cover the costs required to stay healthy and that needs to be addressed and fixed as soon as possible. The fact that 1% of the population of our country owns more than the 93% of the rest of us is not right in my books and needs to be remedied as soon as possible by voting into office people who have on their hearts ALL of those who call themselves citizens of the USA to make for a more perfect union in our country.
For what it is worth, if it were up to me and I had limitless funds to do so, I would see to it that you had all that you need to get well in every way, but ,we both know that that is wishful thinking and not our reality in our country right now . nevertheless, we do have a political system that allows us to elect representatives to fight for better programs to help all of us in our country , so, let's vote into office reps who will do just that for all of us, regardless of race, color or creed . In my books , there should never be any poor in our country ,but there are and the continuous struggle is to convince others that it doesn't have to be that way if we as a people decide to make our country a more equitable place to live than the way it is now.