Health Insurance Can Come In Handy

I remember back when I was a kid and why to this day how I have grown to realize how important health insurance is to a growing family. Here is how it all went down on what was to be a great skiing vacation. Every year we would take a week to go skiing. The night before the trip we were excited and waiting for my dad to get home so we could start to pack. Dad worked at the town's industrial plant for sixteen years. He always said it wasn't much money but it was good work. Mom saved money for our trips by working part time as a cashier. Dad was running late so my brother and I had gone to bed but were still awake when dad got in. Shortly mom and dad started in at what sounded like an argument. Dad was really upset and mom was crying. They sat us down and told us that dad had lost his job. After the dust settled they promised that everything would be alright and that we were not going to miss our trip. I was nearly eighteen and I remember not feeling so sure. This time it was morning and I woke up to my brother holding his stomach and yelling really loud. He must have been in awful pain to be yelling like that. It seemed like a few minutes but there we were waiting in the emergency room. A doctor came out to talk to us and as if he were ordering a pizza he regrets to tell us that my brother had a tumor the size of a baseball in his stomach and he wanted to remove it by the end of the day. Mom started to cry and turn pale at the same time. She looked at my dad and said "we are not going to be able to afford this". With dad loosing his job, mom assumed that we had no insurance. Well, through COBRA he was able to be covered. The surgery and his recovery ended up great. Mom got a full time job at the grocery and I was old enough to start a new job and contribute till dad found work. Looking back I know now how helpless my parents must have felt. I would not wish that on anyone. Getting a couple <a href="http://www.gohealthinsurance.com/quote.jsp">health insurance quotes</a> is a relatively easy process. You just need to go online and you are on your way to having excellent <a href="http://www.gohealthinsurance.com/individual-health-insurance.html">individual health insurance</a> to keep you safe.

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