I have made yet another call in search of health insurance. It didn’t go well. It seems I do not qualify for any health insurance I can afford — but not because I’m racked with poor health or because I haven’t paid my premiums. There are simply no health-care plans available that I can afford.
All I’m trying to do is find a plan that my local doctor will accept. This is the doctor I lost several years ago after my health insurance plan was discontinued. That’s right, the one President Barack Obama said I could keep. Who would say such a thing if it weren’t true? Health insurance is too important to have someone, especially someone in power, deliver contradictory and false information.
The biggest concern now is that I’m not able to get any health insurance I can afford due to some strange and foreign matrix being applied by people who have no background or experience in health insurance. I have had to spend several hours a day making phone calls and comparing plans. I did find one plan that might fit the bill, but it was only available to those who worked for some grocery store chain because they had been grandfathered in.
To those who think their plans will be grandfathered in, you better think twice. Soon you will be in my shoes in search of health insurance. And believe me, those you voted for will not be.
— Mike Simon, Glen Ellyn
