Trans Medical Care: Health reform's failure
By Dyssonance
05 July, 2010


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There's something special about the concept of independence for me, personally.

Probably because I'm in a situation of great dependence right now, I suppose.

Yesterday, as those who follow events in the US may have been aware, was Independence Day.  A few days ago I wrote a little bit about the stuff behind it, but today I'm going to write about how my day went, and then I'm going to talk about some stuff that may surprise a lot of folks.

Because I'm a pretty complicated gal — and one with "political ambitions", no less.

And Independence Day means a lot of things to me.

On July 4th, in the afternoon of that day, the weather wasn't terrible.  IT only got up to a little over 100 F.  In one of the things I enjoy doing, Dave and I went driving around the city looking at houses.  Dave is really good at and dedicated to monitoring the listings that come out on houses.  He focuses on a specific area, and he's been doing this so long that he has the rather incredible ability to drive through most of the streets in this area and tell you, off the top of his head, what most of the homes sold for the last time they sold.

The problem being that not only transition related care can be excluded, so can other conditions that are medically necessary like diabetes. By forcing insurance to not have pre existing condition clauses and allowing exclusion for many things, health insurance is a joke. It just increases profits for the companies, takes money from people who can't afford to pay for something they can not use, and and leaves a cash strapped person losing what little they can save to cover the medical help they need.

Excuse the bad grammar please.