Another post from a reader at the Daily Dish/Andrew Sullivan in the View from Your Sickbed series. This time a mother writes of the choices her family was forced to make because they had chosen to switch from  private, self-employment insurance to Blue Cross:

Let me state that very clearly one more time: we almost didn’t take our baby girl, who was in severe respiratory distress, to the doctor because we knew that it would hurt her chances of getting insurance.