Imagine that you have spent most of your life in one job. Now, imagine that you lose your job the following day. Along with losing the security of a steady paycheck and retirement benefits, you lose your health insurance assurance as well. No matter where you are perched on the political fence, the lack of affordable health insurance in the collectively insistences is a serious issue.

According to Infoplease, 14.2% of Maryland residents felt no health insurance in the year 2004-2005. The lack of affordable health insurance in the United States is a serious problem which affects all of us. I know with regards to the serious problems that final result from the lack of health insurance, because I am writing from personal experience.

Since taking over my Grandfathers company in the early nineties, my Dad has been a self-employed office equipment dealer. equivalent to a number of other self-employed people, Dad could not afford to carry me on his companys health insurance policy. The expensive insurance premiums which Dad would have expended to carry me on his companys insurance policy were basically assignable to my having a physical disability. Since I have Cerebral Palsy, a preexisting condition, carrying me on his health insurance was a very expensive proposition. At the time Dad took over the business, my family could not afford to carry me on his companys health insurance policy.

As a result, I was without health insurance for seven years. During this time, I discovered many obstacles to receiving quality health care. This is especially true when you are a consumer with significant medical needs. For any medical issues related to my ortreassurancedic needs resulting from Cerebral Palsy, I received medical care at two different free clinics. One of the clinics was located in my area. God wired me to be an optimistic woman. As you can imagine, I expected to receive excellent care, at least from the clinic in my area. I was surprised and disappointed in the substandard care I received at both clinics.

It is certainly not encouraging for anyone to be treated as an object and not a wonderfully God-created chap being. However, I am saddened and dismayed to report that this was my experience with the no-cost options for my health care. I am blessed to be a bright, articulate and intellectual lady. Unfortunately, I was not treated like an intelligent lady by either of the two doctors who provided me care at both of the clinics. Looking back, I now acquaint with that I was treated more like an object than an articulate woman who has thoughts, feelings and viewpoints that matter.

The only pretext that I even consulted with clinic doctors was due to the fact that I was experiencing a very serious and painful medical situation related to my disability. After almost fifteen years of efforts to keep my right hip in the socket using several styles of physical therapy, I learned a very painful lesson. Our bodies dont always agree with the desires of our hearts. My hip went out of socket in January, 1994. In retrospect, I had years of warning about my hip, but the doctor was a difficult and arrogant man. This particular doctor remains very well-known for how he performs surgery. However, the fact that this doctor lacked warmth and sensitivity and had the bedside manner of a tree stump was a major red flag to me. Although this doctor originally diagnosed my right hip as going out of socket in May, 1993, I chose not to authorize him to operate on me. At the time, this was the best decision because our doctor-patient rapport was not the best. We were socially acceptable, but we really didnt get along at all.

The longer that my family and I searched for a knowledgeable, trustworthy and caring doctor, the more intolerable my pain became. Eventually, my pain reached the point where my only comfortable position was complete bed rest. If you have ever traveled to another country, then you can probably appreciate how fantastically blessed we are to be living in the United States of America. Ironically, as wealthy as our country is, there as well exist horrible differences in the treatment of the people who have health insurance and those who do not. As both an American and a patient, I am deeply saddened and disappointed that this is the unacceptable veracity of our current healthcare system.

Physically, I knew that I could not take the pain much longer. Imagine that someone is all the time sticking your leg with hot, prickly, pins for over seven years. It is distressing! That is exactly how I felt all the time. I knew I caught up major surgery to be comfortable again and have any uncertainty of regaining my ability to function in my daily life. So that I would receive much needed health insurance for an operation which I seriously needed, my mom went to work part-time as an Attendance Secretary for the chief school system in our state.

A month before my senior year of high school, I underwent hip relocation surgery. I was in a full body cast for three months during the hottest time of the year! My resurgence, which was originally expected to only last six weeks, in reality lasted three and a half years. As a result, I underwent many hours and forms of intense physical therapy. When you are sixteen, you dont always appreciate the end goal. During this time, I did not understand why I still hurt, or why my therapist Cara was motivating me with music to work excepting I screamed and cried. Looking back now, I love Cara very much for her dedication, encouragement and commitment to me and my healing algorithm. I knew that my healing process was in the Lords control and timing all along!

I am so exceptionally thankful, both for the improvement and return to normalcy of my health, and Gods abundant blessings in each new day. Sadly, the lack of affordable health insurance remains a serious problem for many Americans. In my opinion, this is hopeless and unacceptable. We are in a healthcare crisis in the United States and are in serious need of a national health insurance policy. As both a patient who receives healthcare on a continuing basis and a tax-paying citizen, I hope and pray that the establishiment of a national health insurance program is accomplished in the near the next.

***WHAT ON EARTH IS TEMPORARY HEALTH INSURANCE?

a couple of if not Some, people have on no account heard of temporary health insurance until by surprise they crave it. Into most lives a gap must fall. People are in between face up tos, on strike; working however benefits have not yet kicked in. Or they may be current graduates who had health insurance throughout college and nowadays they are now they are out whipping the pavements without any health insurance. For these reasons temporary health insurance is there for all those in between times. It will protection you from one to twelve months.

***IS TEMPORARY HEALTH INSURANCE adore REGULAR INSURANCE?

Yes and no. For starters, it never ever covers pre-existing conditions. No, nyet, no way, nada, and N.O. Nor does it cover preventative, routine health care. That cruels no physicals, no routine blood work, no mammograms. There is no financial benefit whatsoever to a temporary health insurance company for providing this generous of insurance. Other than these exceptions, temporary health insurance is lovely much like regular health insurance.

***ARE THERE SPECIAL COMPANIES FOR TEMPORARY HEALTH INSURANCE?

Do you mean something like Temporary new or Memp Temp, brainquartered in Memphis Tennessee? No, its the identical hand-me-down companies that you love, dislike, or are indifferent to. Blue Cross, Aetna, Humana and many others present a wide range of plans. There are a number of sites on the Internet where you can get quotes and sophisticated. Always go to your library and read the back issues of client Reports that rate insurance companies.

***HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?

Lets say you are a 40-year-old lady. If you take no deductible, your tariffs will be around $200 a month but they go all the way down to $100 if you take a $5000 deductible. There are also co-pays running from 20% to 50%.

In other lyrics, it aint economical. If you are flat broke and have no returns or assets-no savings, stocks or bonds, no infantile chalet in Vale-you can go to your local welfare office and get your states version of Medicaid.

***DO I REALLY NEED TEMPORARY HEALTH INSURANCE? IM VERY HEALTHY.

Youre out job hunting and youve got on your classy partners of spike heels. Your feet are killing you but you bravely pound the pavement. Suddenly that little heel catches in a crack and you twist and fall. There is a crass “thunk” as your head strikes the pavement. Now you have a spiral fracture to the leg and a brain injury. The doctors have to operate on your leg and drain the fluid from your brain. You are now thousands of dollars in debt and your salary from any job you get will be hand-me-down to pay off this debt. You find out. Do you need temporary health insurance?