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Sam Mason had recently been laid off from Escondido’s Hog Heaven pig farm. “Working there saved my bacon,” the somewhat virile father of seventeen often said as he reminisced. His wife Alicia had lost her job too, at the nearby Rude Awakening Agnostic Pre-School, where she’d worked part-time Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, sans benefits. Sam had also lost his health insurance, which had been part of the pig farm’s benefit package. He’d had a PPO with a $50.00 deductible. The premium was $1,460.00 a month under the pig farm’s rather demeaning “runt plan” but Hog Heaven picked up all but 10% so he’d allowed the unintended slight to pass. Being laid off meant COBRA if he wanted it, but he didn’t because 102% in his case would soon turn into a rather odious piggyback.

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Anyway, other challenges beckoned. Putting food on the table, especially healthy food, for his newly poverty-stricken spouse and brood, the eldest eighteen and male but also unemployed, seemed more daunting than neutering a big ‘un. Sitting on the family’s prized “cozying up” couch agonizing about “taking his brood down to the trough” as he put it, a cheap group meal served for nineteen featuring cholesterol-laden cheeseburgers and fries, seemed like cruel fate until he recalled a tip he’d gotten from a visiting California Health Insurance Agent when he’d still been slopping at Hog Heaven. A huge Farmer’s Market had opened roadside on I-15 down towards San Diego. He didn’t have a fortune in cash on hand, but “Maybe we can work something out,” he told Alicia. “I’ll say a p-prayer,” she said, committing to religiosity as much any laid-off agnostic can.

It must have worked. The Mason adults and some of their older kids wound up “working for food” and came home with a carload of fresh fruits and vegetables and even a year’s supply of tofu. The tofu prompted the Mason’s articulate twelve-year-old, Timothy, a tiny boy for his age, to invent a pun. “They’ll be calling us “Curd Nerds,” he kept on saying, in his own peculiar if also irritating fashion.

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Richard Garrison called Matt Lockard long distance one day … from another planet.

Richard Garrison was part of an advance guard of 21st century workers, in a profession that would’ve been unthinkable just a few decades before. He’d been an oil rig worker last century, but extensive retraining had opened up new worlds to him, literally. Like a traveling salesman in the classic Arthur Miller play, he’d become something vaguely similar, but infinitely more exotic. “I’m a traveling astronaut,” he’d tell people, and the itinerary was exhausting … the moon, Mars, a side journey to Neptune … a place called Delta 7.

The new job was draining enough to have cost him his marriage; the kids lived with a Pygmy nanny back in California and spoke Swahili. Still, he needed to provide for them. The kids needed health insurance in the worst way. He hadn’t even been home in seven months. He knew exactly who to call about that insurance. Luckily the phone he kept by his bed in the space ship’s traveling astronaut section was a Super Fiber Optic line.

Ring ding. Ring ding. Even the ring sounded funny when Matt Lockard, a California Health Insurance Agent, picked up in his office.

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“Matt? Matt Lockard?”

The voice on the other end sounded very, very far away. “Who’s this?” Matt asked, not quite recognizing the faint voice.

“Rich Garrison.”

“Rich. I thought you died a couple of years back.”

“No, it just seems that way because of my new job.”

“Where are you calling from?”

When Matt found out, he practically fainted. But he quickly recovered his composure, and like a pro, discovered the reason for his old friend’s call. Moments later, he’d arranged to sell the policy that Rich Garrison needed.

The next call came in via web cam one evening a few months later. Matt was at home. Rich was relatively close by, on the moon selling vacuum cleaners. “Hi Matt,” said his old friend’s voice, this time not quite so distant.

“Where are you this time?”

“Look out your window at the moon,” Rich said.

The moon was orange, and Matt mused, full of health insurance.

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The Elberts, James, wife Jane, and the kids – Patrick, Jorel, and Wendy – at first glance epitomized the average American family living in La Puente. Dark-haired with pleasant, angular faces, they weren’t ugly; each was well-spoken and polite, although Wendy the youngest was only nine.  On second glance, one noticed that each of them possessed seven fingers on each hand, and if their bare feet were inspected, seven toes on each foot. When 17-year-old Jorel was in an accident at the factory, he proved to be less than a Superman; one of two left index fingers had been nearly severed at the second joint in a slicing machine. At the hospital, Jorel came in with his Dad. The first question asked by an on-duty intake woman seemed like a given, “Do you have insurance young man?” The teenager was lapsing into shock, but managed to look at his father who handled the visual cue appropriately. “No, he doesn’t,” the seven-fingered man admitted. “Why not?” the diligent hospital employee asked, musing about bills never paid when patients prove indigent. When James scratched his forehead in plain view, she considered if she wasn’t being given an extra finger or two. She finally smiled pleasantly when the man assumed responsibility then and there. “I’ll sign for the bills!”

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Jorel was admitted, and the hospital saved his finger.

But this incident gave way to serious soul-searching on the part of Mr. Elbert. “Why don’t we have a family plan?” he pondered. Deep down, he knew. During his otherwise uneventful childhood, James had been told by a wizened grandmother figure living in the home that because he had seven digits on each limb, that he was cursed, and if he ever married a woman with more digits than she was entitled to “by a just God,” then at the very least their family would someday be categorically denied family health insurance coverage. Still, he possessed extraordinary courage and picked up the phone, his fingers like a spider’s legs, and called the first California health insurance agent that came into view.

It was Matt Lockard. After hearing the story, he made his comment succinct. “Wizened grandmother figures always say that in situations like yours. That’s why they don’t sell family plans.”

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