Marrying For Health Benefits
Ahh, America. A man with psoriasis considers marrying just to get health benefits. Now who’s ruining marriage, Conservative Christians? The gays, or the uninsured?
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Ahh, America. A man with psoriasis considers marrying just to get health benefits. Now who’s ruining marriage, Conservative Christians? The gays, or the uninsured?
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See, I have posriasis and here in Portugal our insurance policies cover exactly nothing. Marrying for that wouldn’t take me anywhere either. But good luck to him, I so understand. I now have a whopping 35% of my body covered w lesions but the dermatologists do not feel I need phototherapy. Summer’s coming anyway, they say. Oh here’s some chemo, no need for bloodwork prior to beginning of treatment OR forewarnings of any sort. It’s just my liver, my skin and cancer in the horizon maybe. Not to mention the teratologic wonders should I decide to breed.
Sorry, I’m rambling. It’s just… tiring.
Don’t you know, Graham? Being uninsured is a choice…
/sarcasm off