there is a reason they call this the C.O.B.R.A. plan

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i just spent $450 at the pharmacy

AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!

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Yeah. I bet she takes the expensive nongeneric ones, too.

My situation is temporary (I will get reimbursed, and this will stop soon) and also I have a good job. So I'm mostly just bitching. But I look at this and think what it must be like to be unemployed on COBRA. Wow.

Apropos of nothing a news item caused me to find your work webpage, and there you were! I admire you for doing that job.

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I suspect that I know what news item. My colleague has been getting mentioned a lot in the Times lately. I've been fortunate in that, despite all the hot water that the University has been in lately, I've never been quoted in the paper and I've never been deposed or had to testify in court. A colleague of mine at UCLA is personally named in suits almost every time she does an investigation, and happily that's never happened to me, either. I've been doing this for 8 years, though, and I can't help but to wonder how much longer my luck will hold.

Thanks for the kind words. I actually really like my job, because my boss is splendid, my coworkers are pleasant, and I don't have to worry about being popular. They pay me to call it the way I see it, and that fits well with my personality. I've never had the gift for currying favor or schmoozing.

Oh, and I get a private office, which I realized years ago was one of my primary professional goals, introvert that I am.