This is a great day for me! Last week I signed onto a new job as an Instructional Assistant in the Shawnee Mission School District. Although the pay is not great, this job offers what I have been pursuing and failing to get--health insurance! Yippee! I have been trying to get insurance for myself for the past few months, but have been refused by all the major companies. Meanwhile, I have COBRA insurance which will run out in February, and it costs $650 a month + $150 meds for my "condition." This was a hefty amount for us, but we would have kept paying it, if it was available. By getting this new job, I now have FREE Blue Cross/Blue Shield insurance + life insurance + dental + vision + disability! Unbelievable! Praise God!
I am not teaching high school English or college composition--no, 4 yr 0lds! These are four year olds with learning disabilities or ESL kids who are in need of some help to get ready for Kindergarten. What a switch from my usual fall fare. No stress- no difficult work- no homework!
I took a job this summer at a day care and cared for 1's and 2's (see my little ones in photo above and my friend Safa who worked with me). This was such hard work, I thought I would die, but I stayed on for a month before the new job was offered. It was great training for me, and I loved the dear little kids. It opened my eyes to the day care system and how it runs, but it also showed me how God knew what I needed, even before I knew (you would think that I was old enough to understand that by now!) I also see now, how people's lives are affected by the health insurance problem in America for good or for ill. This is a huge issue, and hopefully our candidates for president have a plan that will improve the situation. Anyway, I am celebrating tonight and I am very thankful.
I am not teaching high school English or college composition--no, 4 yr 0lds! These are four year olds with learning disabilities or ESL kids who are in need of some help to get ready for Kindergarten. What a switch from my usual fall fare. No stress- no difficult work- no homework!
I took a job this summer at a day care and cared for 1's and 2's (see my little ones in photo above and my friend Safa who worked with me). This was such hard work, I thought I would die, but I stayed on for a month before the new job was offered. It was great training for me, and I loved the dear little kids. It opened my eyes to the day care system and how it runs, but it also showed me how God knew what I needed, even before I knew (you would think that I was old enough to understand that by now!) I also see now, how people's lives are affected by the health insurance problem in America for good or for ill. This is a huge issue, and hopefully our candidates for president have a plan that will improve the situation. Anyway, I am celebrating tonight and I am very thankful.
2 comments:
Congrats, mom! What a relief, huh? Earlier in my teaching career I just thought about making a little more money.....trying to make it a little higher on the scale so I could have a little more than a bed, borrowed recliner, and a 13" television. Now my salary isn't as big of a worry as health insurance. We keep having to pay more and more of the cost ourselves. We get so nervous for Cam , Joe, and Lauren when we think about the future as this trend continues. I definitely don't pull in the big bucks so it makes me wonder how so many people with lower paying jobs do it. It must be really scary for a large number of people in this country.
Good going mom. Hopefully, the kiddies don't add too much stress to your day so you can sit back and enjoy the fact that you have health insurance!
Hi, Ross,
Thanks for celebrating with me. I chose the free insurance, but for $197@mo. I could have had the PPO plan. For the average person in America, making $10-$12 an hour and taking home maybe $1400 a month, a $200 insurance payment is a huge bite out of the pay. There is no way to get ahead, and no way to save for the future, and no way to live without a credit card and debt. No wonder the stress level generally is so high. I literally breathed a sigh of relief when I was told "You can't be refused for this insurance," and I can now work with freedom from this stress. I feel like getting involved in fixing this problem, especially for women who approach this situation in the years before retirement, when they have never had to buy insurance for themselves. What if I couldn't work? Insurance would not be an option for me, except at close to $1000 a month.
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