Speaking of…

Yesterday when I mentioned that my husband wanted to give up this job for his dream, I had yet to get my mail. It seems that our insurance deductible was raised another $1000 since Pee Wee started seeing our OB/Gyn. It’s up to $2000 per person and $4000 for the family. We were hoping that her stay in the hospital was going to pay for the deductible so we wouldn’t have to pay $2,400 to the OB. We were wrong in a big way. To put things in perspective, our insurance deductible was $350 per person/$750 for family in January 2006. In June they raised it $1000 per person/$3000 for the family. And now it’s gone up again.

I imagine I’ll soon have to buy a bulk load of exam gloves and start treating my families ills with herbal medicine and homeopathic remedies. Strawberries, by the way, are good for bruising (smashed and applied as a compress) unless your child is allergic. Then they suck too.

Looks like we’re going to have to dump the insurance after all. I’m glad that everyone else will be covered by something (though Grump still has to pay a small co-pay for the VA doctor). As long as I stay poor and don’t find my footing in my “career” the medical for the kids will be taken care of, albeit by doctor’s that are overloaded, mean, and really don’t care too much for medicaid kids. That sucks too.

I think I might need a nap already.