Wearethosepeople’s Blog

This is our family's health care story. It's for anyone who thinks the public option in health care is for lazy people who just want to live off other people's taxes—you know, "those people.”

When B. and I got married in 1998, he put all of his income into his new construction  business and I supported us for a short time with my income. Our health insurance came through my employer. A little over a year later, when our first child was born, our insurance company refused to pay for my emergency Caesarean birth for over 7 months, even though my employer had always paid my premiums on time.