Heartwarming Story about a Person Facing Loss of Healthcare Coverage

[Seymour Flops]

First, let me say that I have not fact-checked this, so I don't know for sure that this story is real. But, it certainly rings true, and I'm sure there are many, many people whose lives could be improved if this happens to them.

To summarize, Mayam Bialik, TV's Amy Farah-Fowler, left her success as a child actress on "Blossom" to pursue her academic dreams. She found herself as a stipend-earning lecturer with no health benefits. About to lose her husband's benefits, she tried out for the role of Amy and of course was ideal for it.

What is the lesson? Easy availability of "free" health insurance is probably holding back many, many people from realizing their own potential. They could use the push that Mayam got from the realization that one particular gravy train was over.

But suppose she would have preferred to keep lecturing, rather than work a job with pay and benefits? Her choice, absolutely.

But choices have consequence. The consequences for her choice should fall on her, not taxpayers.

What should never - ever - happen, and is happening now, is for some Community College student, who works at UPS to earn a living (and have healthcare insurance) while in school to have to pay for Malak to have free healthcare so she can pusue higher academics dreams.

It didn't have to be acting. If she really wanted healthcare for her family, but had no acting fallback, she could have become a public school teacher with good to excellent coverage, or an city worker, or even a UPS worker.

Those jobs also count as realizing one's potential. Living off the taxpayer is no one's potential absent some severe disability.

 

[Eman623]

So she didn't get enough residuals from starring as a teen in a major network TV show to cover her health insurance? That seems improbable.

 

[Eman623]

I bet Joey Lawrence could afford healthcare.

 

[Concerned American]

It didn't have to be acting. If she really wanted healthcare for her family, but had no acting fallback, she could have become a public school teacher with good to excellent coverage, or an city worker, or even a UPS worker.

OR she could do as I and others I worked with did. We worked hot steel 58 hours a week while carrying a full load of subjects. Good wages that paid for our education, housing, food, fuel and insurance. Too many people take the easy way and whine that they have it so hard.

 

[Seymour Flops]

So she didn't get enough residuals from starring as a teen in a major network TV show to cover her health insurance? That seems improbable.

A lot of child actors spend all their money on cocaine once the roles dry up.

Or she may have spent it getting that PhD.

Or the story may indeed be fake, but the point is the same.

 

[Meister]

Mayim Bialik Lives A Lavish Life - The List

Scientist and 'Big Bang Theory' star Mayim Bialik has built a successful career over the years, which has allowed her to enjoy a very luxurious life.

www.thelist.com

 

[HikerGuy83]

First, let me say that I have not fact-checked this, so I don't know for sure that this story is real. But, it certainly rings true, and I'm sure there are many, many people whose lives could be improved if this happens to them.

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To summarize, Mayam Bialik, TV's Amy Farah-Fowler, left her success as a child actress on "Blossom" to pursue her academic dreams. She found herself as a stipend-earning lecturer with no health benefits. About to lose her husband's benefits, she tried out for the role of Amy and of course was ideal for it.

What is the lesson? Easy availability of "free" health insurance is probably holding back many, many people from realizing their own potential. They could use the push that Mayam got from the realization that one particular gravy train was over.

But suppose she would have preferred to keep lecturing, rather than work a job with pay and benefits? Her choice, absolutely.

But choices have consequence. The consequences for her choice should fall on her, not taxpayers.

What should never - ever - happen, and is happening now, is for some Community College student, who works at UPS to earn a living (and have healthcare insurance) while in school to have to pay for Malak to have free healthcare so she can pusue higher academics dreams.

It didn't have to be acting. If she really wanted healthcare for her family, but had no acting fallback, she could have become a public school teacher with good to excellent coverage, or an city worker, or even a UPS worker.

Those jobs also count as realizing one's potential. Living off the taxpayer is no one's potential absent some severe disability.

The story is a feel-good in that it ended well.

It does not for a lot of other people.

The ACA sucks and we can do a lot better if we are willing to make some hard choices. And that might mean telling some people that choices do matter.

There is still much more to be done in this area.

Why-o-why are we such an expensive place to get health care? It's stupid.