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"Healthy" Young People

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I've taken a bit of a hiatus because life got crazy - fortunately not MS-related crazy, but crazy nonetheless! I've been thinking the last week or so about a comment that was made to me last week; it was made totally innocently, but has lingered on my mind: "All you healthy young people don't need the more extensive and expensive insurance coverage!" This comment came from a well-meaning woman at an insurance fair for my new job where we were all scrambling around to learn about what plans and insurance companies were available to us through the company; she absolutely meant no harm by it, in fact she really was trying to save me money by ensuring that "healthy people" would be just fine with the $237 a month plan as opposed to the $553 a month plan.  Now when she said this, I actually almost laughed. "Healthy" is a word so far in my rearview mirror, and yet to her I looked like the picture of health standing in front of her in my bus