52 blessings week 5:

Health Insurance - a benefit I often take for granted. The cause for a lot of headaches; submitting claims, organizing receipts, following up with the administrators to make sure payments are applied to deductibles. Despite the tedious and tiring aspect of keeping up with the paperwork, we are fortunate to be in a position to have health insurance.

In a nation where approximately 46 million people, (18% of the population under age 65) did not have health insurance in 2007; Laura, Alec and I are very grateful to have it.

Especially when you have a wonderful child who happens to have a deadly peanut allergy, and is asthmatic, the cost of medications adds up quickly. A few of the prescriptions Alec could be on at any given time with their associated costs are as follows:

Drug Name - Our Cost/Insurance Paid
SINGULAIR 4 MG TABLET CHEW - $40/$261
EPIPEN JR 0.15 MG AUTO-INJCT - $25/$75
ASMANEX TWISTHALER 110 MCG - $100/$164
PULMICORT 0.5 MG/2 ML RESPULE - $25/$350

I could not imagine living the current quality of life without health insurance.
For this we are grateful.
- Averill