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Stop Wasting My Time

Annie Lowrey explains why government makes getting help so damn complicated

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Ron Charles
Aug 28, 2026
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Babies always sweep away the carefully laid plans of their parents. But our first child almost swept us away, too.

In the summer of 1989, Elissa was born with cerebral palsy.

I was working as an instructor at a small college where I made $24,000 a year. Because my health insurance didn’t cover my wife or any children, we had carefully saved up enoug…

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