insurance...can't pay for it, can't go w/o it

a mild rant here today

we finished filling out the paperwork to pick up the insurance with rich's new company and faxed it in today...rich has been making training pay, which is 60 of his 75 gaurnteed hrs once he's in normal circulation

and that 15 extra hours will basically just cover the insurance that we're picking up, at least i'm used to living w/o it already but seriously...insurance is beyond rediculous!!!

and then of course i've been trying to get some coverage for the girls (rich and i are on a no frills major medical plan) and have yet to hear back from the company so if they're denied coverage it's really going to suck because they'll be past the lack of coverage time period thing and then the new insurance will probably try and pull pre-existing conditions crap on us...oh how i loath insurance companies...but you can't afford to be w/o...so we pay through the nose money that would really make our everyday lives easier with other bills and putting food on our table...but no, we suffer through it because to be w/o it would be too scary...

sometimes i see the logic in socialized medicine, other times, not so much...maybe if they'd put some stringent limitations on medical malpractice suites (like how much a lawyer can make from the case) we'd have less problems with soaring insurance cost and good doctors would be able to afford to practice and offer medical care at a reasonable cost

ok, off my soap box...for now at least