Benjamin’s Musings

health insurance quotes

I was never much of a businesswoman. I’ve never had to really handle my own business; my mom was always there to help. Now that I’ve gone off to college, though, and started doing everything else on my own, she expects me to handle everything by myself, which is fine, although I can’t exactly say that I always stay on top of my game.

            Now here I am, laying in bed, almost unable to move. Apparently an epidemic of mono spread through the dorm floor, knocking out all who got in its way. A girl was sick last week, and now 5 more people (including myself) are sick. I anticipate that others will end up being sick as well. I have no idea for how long I’m going to be sick. Unfortunately, I opted out of the school insurance because I had gotten some health insurance quotes on line and determined that it would be much cheaper to try to stick it out rather than paying for school insurance. My roommate had gotten some health insurance quotes, but had opted for the school insurance. I was going to get around to getting my own insurance plan eventually, but I had been slacking obviously. Now it is too late, and I wish I had followed through. My mom wasn’t too happy to hear I was sick and was even more disappointed to hear that I had no medical insurance to cover a doctor’s visit and no money to pay for that visit. She tells me that this is going to have to be a lesson learned…this is sure going to be a tough lesson learned. I don’t know honestly if I’ll be able to survive this lesson!

            Okay, so maybe that was a little over the top. I know eventually I’ll be fine. The problem is just that I don’t like being sick, especially when before I’m used to going to doctor for any little thing wrong (it took a lot of convincing when I got older to dissuade her from taking me to the doctor for scraped knees and paper cuts).  We had health insurance good enough to warrant such visits. Now, since I’m on my own, things aren’t the same anymore. Now I’m truly sick and I don’t even have the option of going to the doctor. I’m sure if things get any worse I could probably go to the emergency room, but emergency room fees are ridiculously expensive too, and I’m a poor college student…I can’t afford to spend money on pricey emergency room visits.

            I’m getting tired now…I’m going to just lay here and think about how I messed myself up. I promise as SOON as I get well I’m going straight to the computer and buying medical insurance. This just isn’t worth it.