(I had another post planned for today, but yesterday’s passage of health care reform legislation by the House has trumped that one for another day.)
My wife and I met and married during college in the 1990s. Our goal was to get her through graduate school at which time she would take a full-time position in her degree field and I would transition to being the stay-home parent once children came along. We hadn’t been married long and she had already begun graduate school when an newly diagnosed health condition required her to have surgery with a hospital stay. We were uninsured. The surgeon worked with us on a sliding-scale to reduce the cost, but it was still many thousands of dollars, much more than either of us could afford so we got on a payment plan. Now, not only did we have college and graduate school tuition debt, but we had medical debt too. A lot of it. (more…)
John Rea-Hedrick
