health | Big Owl's Tree

That evil, socialist healthcare reform begins to phase into effect today. Here are the dastardly provisions that become law now:

1. Insurance companies will no longer be able to deny children coverage for pre-existing conditions. (Damn socialists wanting children to have health coverage. Damn them. Damn them to hell. How can our country be moving in that direction?)

2. Children of parents with insurance will be allowed to remain covered under those policies until the age of 26. (Make the little fuckers get a job.)

3. Insurance companies will be forbidden from terminating coverage for any other reason than customer fraud. (How can health insurance companies make billions in profits if they actually have to keep sick people on the books? Again, how can our country be moving in such an evil direction?)

4. Insurance companies will no longer be able to cap the amount of benefits and treatment a person can receive in a lifetime. (Jesus fucking Christ, is there no justice for large corporations trying to maximize profits? )

5. Insurers can no longer charge customers for preventive services like mammograms and colonoscopies. (This commie fucker can’t even spell preventative correctly. Our country is headed in the wrong direction!)

6. High-risk pools are mandated to cover those who have been denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions. (This must be those death panels I heard about on Fox News. Get my goddamn pitchfork and torch. Take to the streets! We’re Taxed Enough Already! I’m angry at all this socialism!)

We now continue with your regularly scheduled programming.

Another update: I’ve recently started running again. It’s been 18 years since I ran regularly, so getting back into it took a major build-up of courage for me. I’ve never been a good runner, but the workout is really good for my heart and blood pressure. After just a couple of weeks, I can already make two 1/3 of a mile laps at the park. I can’t complete them consecutively yet, so that’s why I didn’t write 2/3 of a mile. Still, I feel pretty good about my progress in such a short time.

My goal is to get back to 3 miles a day. That’s what I ran back in the football days, and I feel pretty confident that I can get back to that level. Also, I would like to make it in thirty minutes. That’s just a ten minute mile, which isn’t all that fast, so I feel like it’s a realistic goal to start with. Once I make that, I’ll work on getting the time down.

Running will help me get down to my goal weight and get my blood pressure under control. It’s also a great stress release, so maybe all the stress of dual enrollment and my overload schedule won’t overwhelm me this semester. We’ll see.