We unhooked the RV and bid farewell to the Midwest on Wednesday, heading south out of St. Louis along the mighty Mississippi River – made even mightier by record floods – and into Tennessee, where we will begin a southern swing in our tour.

Pauline stands in the middle of what is supposed to be a road, washed out by the flooded Mississippi River. That orb in the water? A stop sign.

Before leaving we took a break to enjoy some top notch catfish at Darlene’s Diner in Bertrand, Mo., then had our photo taken with Superman in Metropolis, Illinois. We’d definitely recommend both places to anyone passing through; both were experiences we won’t soon forget.


Metropolis, IL... home of Superman. And this large Superman tribute.

This Thursday the Cover America Tour is meeting up with local groups in Nashville to discuss the problems facing Americans in accessing affordable health care. The event will feature community groups, local leaders, and regular Nashvillians with stories to tell us about the health care system.

If you’re in the Nashville area come out and meet the road trip crew and share your own personal story. The event starts at noon and you can’t miss us. Just look for the big blue RV parked at Centennial Park between the locomotive and the airplane. As they say in the South, y’all come.

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1 Posted by Joyce London at 06/27/08 04:19 PM

My husband and I retired to Virginia from N.Y.C. 20 years ago, because our retirement income was not sufficient to live in New York. For the past few years, with the change in prescription costs, we fall into the "doughnut hole"of reimbursement on our RX's and are spending about $4000 a year. As one gets older,the number of prescriptions increase, and with the tremendous jump in costs, the $4000/yr that used to be our back-up and our vacationing is gone.

2 Posted by kathy stingo at 06/27/08 05:54 PM

We moved to NC from NY for a few reasons, but one of the main one was cost of living. Just as we arrived here my husband was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. BC/BS denied his claim because the hospital in which he had knee surgery told them that he had a heart attack while he was in the hospital. Problem is we were never told and we did not include that on the application for BC/BS. Of course he was denied retroactive to 11/2005 from 7/2005. We still have $8,000 bill to pay.
Then after having a hole in his heart plugged, he was diagnosed with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. Thank God by then he was covered under medicare. To make a long story short, the drug that helps him cost $4000/mo. This occurred at the same time he entered that famous "hole". We can not afford that kind of money. (How many people can?). Fortunately, Duke Medical Center put us in touch with an organization that offers assistance to middle class people whose income is over the minimum allowed by the usual places that offer help. I.E. county and state. They gave my husband a grant that covers the hole and the copay for the rest of 2008. Without them, my husband would probably die because of the costly medication.
A thought here. Private insurance carriers who used to cover 80% of all of our health care bills now follow medicare rules. Thus there is no place to go for insurance that covers this "hole". What's wrong with this picture?

3 Posted by John N. Moreno at 06/27/08 07:02 PM

Everyone keeps saying "affordable health care". Health care is prevention - what you are talking about is sick care. The only true affordable health care to actively being preventative. An ounce of prevention is still worth a pound of cure. Just like a gallon of gas is rising almost hourly, a pound of cure is rising almost hourly!

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