Some friends of ours found out they were pregnant a week before he was laid off. They tried to go on her company’s health insurance at that point, but apparently pregnancy is a pre-existing condition. They keep this tally on their fridge of how much it costs to have their baby and doctors’ appointments, and how much it would have cost with insurance. The difference astounds me. Looking at that tally, I can completely understand how some people don’t get health care when they need it most if they don’t have good insurance.

And oh, my gosh, yes, EXPENSIVE! After Ev was born HR called a meeting to explain that the coverage was being cut because costs had gone up the year before. Guess how long it took people to figure out that my complications having my son were ruining everyone else’s insurance premiums. And guess how long it took them to point it out. Ya. Minutes. Good times.