I'm glad CJ's ok, Suzi.

my problem with the health care bill is the continued reliance on insurance companies.

Yes. They don't add any value to the medical system. What say we put the money that would be going into insurance company profits into paying for more, better paid nurses? Home health care to support aging in place? Student loan forgiveness for health workers who are willing to work in underserved areas? You know—stuff that actually improves the health of the population.

Remind him how to use the phone.

I just mailed in a claim on our old insurance, which I have to do manually for a number of reasons. The form is terrifying. It's so burdensome.

thank goodness he's ok!

I think about the number of times I pulled shit like that without even thinking it was any big and what my mom went through and oy.

Me too, Brenda.

Glad CJ is safe Suzi. Tell him he had the internet worried sick!!

(((msbelle)))

Watching the dog show. I want a dog.

I have supposedly good health care coverage. Though I have a $3k deductible for the family plus another $1.5k deductible for prescriptions. And I'm seeing a hematologist next week plus whatever treatment he prescribes.

I wish the folks in Washington had to spend 6 months on regular people insurance and maybe they would get a clue.

All my HSA money is in a vacuum somewhere that I haven't tracked down. When I switched from the high-deduc to a regular plan, they kept sending me new debit cards. So last year, I got them switched up at some point (they look exactly the same) and I only realized when they sent me a statement in December that all my expenses that year had come out of the HSA - that rolls over - and not the FSA, which didn't. So I had like three weeks to blow $800 or lose it entirely. I got new glasses and ordered a shit ton of stuff I don't really need from drugstore.com.

But I still haven't figured out what card of the three is right. And when I tried to send in a receipt manually it got denied. So all my medical expenses this year (mostly dental) I've just paid and not been reimbursed for. Maybe that's my next onerous task, figuring out what the hell is going on.

I probably wouldn't have freaked so much if he wasn't so punctual about getting home at 3:05 each day. Plus he missed karate - another not normal thing. I kept myself calm for a while with "he will be home by 4:30 for karate. Don't worry until after 4:30".

The police were still in the parking lot when KCD and CJ got home. I believe some words were spoken to CJ.

He is trying to suck up now - he offered to make dinner.

I am having alcohol on your behalf. so stressy.

Oy. I just saw a commercial for a new Kraft mac and cheese that's oven-baked that pretty much says to make this stuff for your kids because kids don't like the things you cook.