Posted on 06/07/2009 9:02:10 AM PDT by Lou Budvis
.... Misty Navarro, Thomas’ mother, makes $18 an hour as an office supervisor in a pediatric clinic. In Healthy Families, her premium is $12 a month. Without the program, she could cover her kids through her employer but it would cost $300 a month.
She doesn’t have the money. She will barely make the $750 a month rent for the Santa Paula town home the family is moving into thanks to a government housing program.
Essentially, she’d be uninsured, scrambling to find ways to continue the treatment Thomas gets to control his weight and minimize his risk of diabetes. If he needed two $1,200 CT scans like he did after jumping off a table when he was 3, she’d be cooked.
“You’re putting yourself in debt,” she said. “It’s awful to have medical bills.”
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The proposal is just that. Advocates expect Democratic legislative leaders to fight to keep at least part of the program but predict the possibility of significant cuts
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(Excerpt) Read more at venturacountystar.com ...
This woman makes over 37,000 per year.
She can pay for her own damn insurance.
OH FOR GOSH SAKES!
I make 35,000 a year, pay 500 a mo for my families private health care, and pay a 900 a month mortgage. My family lives on my income and my wife works part time twice a week.
STOP COMPLAINING!
37K a year in California is borderline poverty. I seriously doubt that she can afford any comprehensive policy out there.
I made $60K or better for years as a small contractor out there, and still could never afford health insurance for my family.
That being said, I never got Big Brother to force my neighbors to subsidize my family's health care.
My husband and I pay over $300 a month for our insurance and I pay an additional $100 for medicare.
We live on a fixed retirement income which is lower than her income.
Why should she have state help when we don’t? We had to move out of CA because we couldn’t afford to live there. My kids all live there and I had to give up being close to them in order to live on our income.
Duh!! We all have had to make hard choices.
Where is Misty Navarro’s husband??? Did he die in a horrible accident?? Even if he is “out of the picture” he is still responsible for the kids health care.
Besides she certainly makes plenty of money to take care of her needs. I have made that same wage and less and supported a family of 6.
I hate broken families with a passion. Learn to pick your mate. Don’t hop on anything with two legs, that goes for both sexes.
Where's baby daddy? Oh that's right, the taxpayer is her husband.
She has subsidized housing as well. If her kid did not have TWO $1200 CAT scans? Unreal!
Other taxpayers should pay for endless freebies.
The libs chase away the two largest WEALTH creators in this country - manufacturing and energy production. These two things lead to the massive wealth the U.S. had starting from 1949 to around 1970 where the vast bulk of our wealth was created. We are living off of that and the game is pretty much over now.
The time to think about covering your children’s bills, is before you jump in the sack. Find a good man. Develop a relationship. Get married. Live together for a while. When the way is prepared, have kids.
You can’t afford their insurance? Well neither can I. So why are my fellow citizens and I having to pay for them?
You can’t afford their insurance. You can’t afford to house them.
Good grief lady, when it comes time to pay my bills, I can’t sob my way out of them.
Man up! Or Woman up, if you will...
I can’t afford health care insurance for children right now, therefore I haven’t created children of my own.
I can’t afford car insurance for a new Ferrari right now, therefore I haven’t bought myself a Ferrari.
I can’t afford a big house payment right now, therefore I haven’t bought a big new house.
I could go on....
Why do people think they deserve for other people to pay for their decisions?
She's a USER, just like most of the USERs in that state. That's why they're 'effing' broke! Government assisted 'town home'? What else is 'government-assisted?'
Probably every aspect of her financial life is 'government-assisted' Screw her....Besides that, where's baby daddy?
The problem is that $12 a month she is paying is pretty much all she is paying. I had a friend change from govt. health insurance to private- she called to ask me what a deductible was, because she had never had one. While the rest of us might have co-pays or deductibles that discourage us from frequent unneeded visits, the people on govt. provided insurance do not.
This is exactly one of the reasons gov run health care is a bad idea. Playing ball with friends, going for walks, getting involved with many activities cost nothing. I bet she has money to buy the boy expensive game systems and plenty of snacks and such. I’m not a lightweight myself but this kind of whining makes me embarrassed for this lady.
Essentially, she’d be uninsured, scrambling to find ways to continue the treatment Thomas gets to control his weight and minimize his risk of diabetes. If he needed two $1,200 CT scans like he did after jumping off a table when he was 3, she’d be cooked.
Regarding the 2 $1,200 CT scans, With 3 kids, no CT scans—kids have had concussions from football, etc. Daughter in car accident—her car totaled ER did no CT scan. My kids fell out of trees, fell down stairs, fell off bikes, etc. but no CT scans. My daughter was in car when my car was rear-ended, totaled—her car seat flew straight up and I did take her in to be checked—I am really wondering a bout need for 2 CT scans—must of been a really tall table!!! Am I wrong about over use of CT scans?
Also if an event occurs where she needs help in a tragic event. I’m sure the community would help her. Why do people assume that the only way to deal with tragic circumstances and unpredictable expense is to rely on the government? I gladly help out friends and family in need on a regular basis. I will not enable them but I have no problem helping someone and there are a lot of Americans like me the only problem is that people don’t want to ask they want to take and not say thank you.
I know it extremely mean spirited and evil of me to suggest, but what if Misty cut out the cable bill, cell phone, trips to fast food places, brown bag it to work and maybe even get a small part time job she could afford the $75.00 a week to pay for her own health care.
Again, I apologize for being so cruel as to expect her to do what 99% of what a conservative would do, but life has became cruel, especially in the land of fruit and nuts where the financial rubber is meeting the road and leaving a huge skid mark
She has TWO kids with a different last name than hers. Presumably there’s a Mr. Bustos somewhere who should be contributing to his kids’ upkeep.
And the 11-yr old is HUGE! No wonder he’s diabetic. What is she feeding him?
“This is exactly one of the reasons gov run health care is a bad idea. Playing ball with friends, going for walks, getting involved with many activities cost nothing. I bet she has money to buy the boy expensive game systems and plenty of snacks and such. I’m not a lightweight myself but this kind of whining makes me embarrassed for this lady.”
Last night CBS did a cry piece on a woman who was struggling with her bills, about to lose her home. She had fake fingernails, died hair, trendy clothes and complained $484.00 in food stamps wasn’t enough to feed 5 of them. Nonsense! I manage to get by on $100 a month for food, but then I don’t get the food stamp handout.
These people simply don’t know how to manage their money.
And the woman in this article gets $18.00 an hour? She doesn’t know how to budget either.
Let them get out in the yard and make a vegetable garden. They will get good exercise, grow healthy veggies, and improve their health as they take off the pounds. There is no pill on earth as beneficial as gardening.
What this woman should do is get the insurance from her employer, and she should look at that as her #1 or #2 bill every month (priority). That's being responsible. That's what the vast majority of Americans do, isn't it?
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