Regarding the Affordable Care Act and Facebook I originally posted my welfare mom story on my Facebook page. As you can imagine, it generated a shitstorm of commenting, most of it, happily, in the vein of “tell ‘em sistah” and “that’s amazing.” Not surprising since...

Ok, brace yourselves, this will be a long one. When I found out I was pregnant - at 44 and after being told for 10 years that I would never get pregnant - I discovered that I would need to see a specialist. I immediately applied for insurance under the pre-existing...