Today my sister and I were talking, and I was, for the umpteenth time, whining in frustration about my own difficulties with finding affordable health insurance now that I am out of school.
"You should start a blog," she said.
Joanna had several reasons why she thought starting a blog about my health care travails would be a good idea. These included the possibility that I might gain some publicity and be able to raise money to fund such a thing. "You could write about it, and become famous!" she said.
"If it were me, I'd write a song. But I think that blogging is a better medium for you."
I'm a bit hesitant to start a blog just about my own issues with health care. Not that I feel shame about it; I'm fairly public about my health issues, feeling like hte more information is out there, the more likely it is that those of us who are sick won't be considered totally weird.
And before you ask, my appropriation of the term "sicko," as in "Frustrated Sicko," is less inspired by Michael Moore's movie than it is by my ever-fabulous activisty friend 'becca, who started queering diabetes a number of years ago.
But I digress.
My hesitation about starting a Frustrated Sicko blog is more due to feeling like I don't have the right to complain. I actually am insured at the moment, and am going to remain so, thanks in large part to my parents, who have generously offered to front me the money for my continuing coverage plan through the university whose plan was covering me up until the end of this week.
I can't afford it by myself, but at least my parent's are well-off enough that I have an option.
Which is better than having no affordable option at all. Even if I can't personally afford that option.
So this is the opening post. More substance to come, perhaps even today (!).
For my personal stuff, please visit my livejournal. I expect that I am a lot more interesting over there.
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You absolutely have the right to complain. You deserve health care just as much as everyone else does. Affordable, accessible, excellent quality health care. JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. The fact that your circumstances permit you to have access to the health care that you need to have in order to survive doesn't mean you lose the right to complain about its inadequacy, especially given the fact that your ability to access it is coupled with the fear that it will become inaccessible. Which is a rational fear for ANYBODY who has a body, in my opinion, but especially for someone with conditions like yours that could be immediate survival threats if your health care access is compromised. You sure as hell have the right to complain, AND I REALLY HOPE YOU KEEP DOING IT, because sooner or later, SOMEBODY HAS TO LISTEN.
Somebody who makes decisions, that is. Obviously, I'm listening. ;-)
Thank you for doing this, and for posting the QueeringDiabetes link. I hope you'll post more links like that one.
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