As I wrote in my previous post about health care reform, before I met my husband, I had no health insurance. In 2002, no insurer would have me. I guess I was too old. I didn’t fit the profile.

I was probably judged as being on the cusp of having problems  because of my age, even though I had never had a serious illness, was not overweight. and was  fairly physically fit. (I weighed 108, my blood pressure was 70/110 and could bicycle 30 miles in Florida’s July heat.) [Read more →]