Day Four

Well todays email to President Obama was about healthcare. Healthcare has been on my mind lately for two reasons: my dad was recently diagnosed with colon cancer and he had surgery today and we are trying to get insurance for our family and are getting the run around. As you know my husband was laid off and recently started a job with a new company. The insurance at the new company is too high for us to pay every month so we are trying to get it on our own. So we started this process 6 weeks ago and still have not heard. We are a healthy family of four-thank God-and originally were going to be approved without BCBS needing our records. Well then we were informed that they needed under writing to get more info on a cardiologist appointment my son had when he was 6 mos old. He had a murmur when he was born and our pediatrician suggested we go have it checked. We did and it was nothing. The doctor told us he is fine, no murmur it closed, and he doesn't need to see us again. Well this little 30 min appointment has turned into maybe us not getting insurance or could raise our monthly rate significantly. Ugh, really!! Its like they are looking for reasons to not accept us. So this was what I basically shared with the President today. Haven't heard any response yet so I will keep writing.

If there is anything you want me to ask him or talk about, let me know.