This post is brought to you by a fabulous headache!

I should be resting in a dark room, but why do that when I can stare at a computer monitor, right? Anyway, it's not like it's a migraine--I don't get those thank God. Okay so this post is political. I'm warning you now. If you came here for a little dose of 'she thinks she's so funny' or she thinks she's so creative', just come back tomorrow--'kay?

Here it is. I decided that I was FED UP with all the crazy ridiculousness going on in Washington. They actually hired a speed reader to read a bill? Give me a break! Now they want to treat health care with the same panic and urgency that they handled the economy. Pretending that they don't have time to read or analyze cost of the measures...just implement them NOW already. I don't buy it. I don't buy that our health care is so bad it can't wait until they figure out how much this bill will cost or how to pay for it. (That's so laughable I can hardly type it. I mean obviously they can pay for it right? They'll just raise taxes on the rich folks, duh! Rich folks obviously have a bottomless pit of money. Whew, problem solved.)

The other day I decided to find out why so many people are without insurance. I decided to see how hard it would be to qualify for Medicaid. On my gosh, go to that website if you want to be bored out of your mind. It was so bad it totally killed my Tylenol Sinus buzz. Anyway, I couldn't find out what the qualifications were for benefits. There is no chart that says...you make less than this...you are covered. Well, why should they make it easy right? I guess I could have called the Dallas office--closest one to me. I did learn though that it's actually handled through the states. I thought it was a federal thing, but apparently it is completely mixed all to hell between state and fed. Brilliant.

I do understand that insurance companies have been the ruination of many an industry. I mean you pay premiums for years and years and then after thirty years you try to get the roof replaced on your house due to hurricane damage only to find out that you weren't actually paying for coverage for a new roof. (True story, happened to my grandparents.) Or your new car that was damaged in a wreck they have deemed it 'totalled' rather than fix it. (Happened to brother in law.)

Or with us...this is a good one...We took Little m to the doc for a 15 month well baby check up. Even though she had no symptoms, when he checked her throat, he said it was red and irritated and he needed to do a strep test (it was negative). Now he said, because of insurance, he was not allowed to give her the vaccines she was due to have. Not because it would bother her, he said, insurance would not pay for a visit with a diagnosis and the shots in the same visit. We could return the next day for her shots. Well folks, I am loathe to take a healthy baby to a crawling-with-germs-doctor office any more than I have to so I asked how much the vaccinations would cost. $90. Okay, I shot D a look and he nodded. Here's where it gets interesting folks. I asked the doc if we could just pay for the shot ourselves. No he said. That's right, due to his contract with the insurance, we could not pay to have our child vaccinated that day. Insanity. He was not allowed to take a payment from us. Someone explain that to me and how it makes any kind of sense.

So yes, I think insurance is a mess. Health care is a mess. But I really think this government needs to slow down! Stop the spending madness!!

Here's what I did. Because it seems like I needed to do something. I signed this petition:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/8/an-open-letter-to-our-nations-leadership

And then I forwarded this information to everyone in my email list. Democrats and Republicans. Because I think this is something we can all find common ground on. Check out the site and see if you feel moved to sign also.

Thanks for reading!