Here's my problem:
I know people who get their chiropracty, acupuncture, massages, and gym memberships paid for by their health insurance. Those are all more or less great things (depending on how much you like to relax and/or how not afraid of carotid dissection you are).

And then I know people who are scared to go to the doctor because they don't have any money to pay for it and if it turned out there's something wrong with them it would be a pre-existing condition and they'd never be able to get even crappy health insurance again have to pay a huge amount of money to go into the BRAND NEW REALLY EXCITING high risk pools one can join with a pre-existing condition after being turned down for insurance and being uninsured (and presumably untreated for said pre-existing condition) for 6 months.

And my problem is that I know lots of people in both groups, but it seems like the vast majority of people in the first group know nobody in the second group and really can't even begin to conceive of what life is like with crappy insurance, let alone no insurance. And it has never occurred to those in the first group that they could give up their cracking/needles/comfy/treadmill so that other people could get life-saving medicines.

And I know I'm just being mean and the folks in the first group have good jobs and have worked really hard to get there and probably weren't even given the option of more simple health insurance. But I also hope that they recognize that their "first world problem" of not getting fulling reimbursed for their boutique healthcare has a pretty direct relationship to their neighbor up the street, who works really hard, too, having healthcare that sucks compared to what they could get in Cuba. _
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