Harvard Brilliance or The Importance of Being Happy

I met a woman. Harvard educated, masters, certified in landscape architecture, she had a very well paying career when she was diagnosed and treated for breast cancer. She decided that she wanted to do something more fulfilling so she quit her job and became a furniture maker.

When we met, she happened to be complaining about her health insurance. She was going to have to start paying for a Cobra policy which she could not afford. She was complaining that since she had a pre-existing condition she was unable to purchase a regular policy and that to add her onto her partners policy the cost was once again prohibitive.

I asked if she considered her health and the insurance implications when she left her job. She said yes, but that her happiness was more important. Now she wants me to pay for her care through nationalized health care. She thinks it is her right. She loves HObama's current proposed health care initiative. It absolves her of her less than common sense decisions. It makes me pay for her quest for happiness.

She had a very well paying position which she gave up, voluntarily, having full knowledge of the effects her leaving would have on her health insurance which, as a cancer patient, was rather important to her. Now she was complaining because she got what she knew she would get.

Harvard spits out some real smart cookies huh?