The search to find health insurance

This is in response to Anita Kuechenberg of Palatine for her letter in Fence Post on Jan. 16.

My husband and I are some of that 14 percent who cannot get health and medical insurance.

We have both worked since we were teenagers (now 60 and 62). I was let go from my job in July of 2007 and my husband (who is a heart patient) would like to retire before he cannot do anything but sit around.

But because we only have medical insurance through his job, he cannot retire.

Seems the insurance companies only insure "healthy" persons. We have attempted to obtain our own medical insurance, but because we have "pre-existing" health issues, we have been declined coverage.

Therefore, people need to get help in obtaining medical coverage because insurance companies are part of the reason there is 14 percent of uninsured people.

It isn't all because those 14 percent cannot afford it.

If you want medical insurance, you better stay healthy or else you better plan on working the rest of your life so you can keep group insurance through your employer.

Shirley Wagner

Streamwood