longer thought about this later

[rm]

I think I get the most emotionally caught up in my status BS in a bad way when my "very fictional life," as I call it isn't taken seriously.

More specifically, how many of us pay lip service to the idea of "chosen family" or "created family" but still don't really treat such connections as seriously as biological or legal connections? One could argue there are logistically valid reasons for that, but is life really lived on logistics? I suppose this is iterations #904539054 of my complaint about the phrase of "just friends." I realize, of course, what it's supposed to mean, but it always sounds like an oxymoron to me, how can you be calling someone a friend and neglible at the same time?

I go do stuff now before I get cranky.

Oh, speaking of cranky -- if you're following the Gather dramarama -- apparently homosexual marriage will make your health insurance rates go up.

Tomorrow's SFF column that I won't even work on until tomorrow night is going to be "Does Cyberpunk Still Matter?"

Comments

[manycolored.livejournal.com]

The more insured people there are, the fewer uninsured people will be clogging up the ER and then not paying. There will be fewer uninsured people waiting for minor and chronic conditions to turn expensively and schedule-disruptingly severe and acute before they seek medical care. There will be fewer bankruptcies over medical expenses and fewer people crashing into the social safety net.

It sounds like a last-ditch effort to find an excuse for bigotry that doesn't sound quite as bigoted as "Homosexuals make me feel threatened, so I want to keep them safely under the boot of the status quo."

[spiralflames.livejournal.com]

those of us who were 'clogging' up the ER were people who either couldn't QUALIFY for insurance, or who couldn't afford it. i looked into the costs for major medical insurance with a FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLAR deductable- it would have cost me $600 a month. hello? right now FORTY PERCENT of adults in this country are uninsured or underinsured, and this isn't because they're simply lazy and choose to be negligent.

[manycolored.livejournal.com]

I hope I didn't give the impression that i disagree with you at all. It's not just allowing people to get insurance through their partners of whatever type - it's insuring those people who need extensive medical care as well as those who are healthy little piggy banks for the insurance companies.