Lex Friedman blogs here.

Lex Friedman is Macworld's Staff Writer. He formerly wrote for TidBITS and worked as the Senior Director of Product & Community at Demand Media. Views expressed here are, unsurprisingly, his own.

He co-founded The Daily Plate.

His first book, based on his website The Snuggie Sutra, is available now.

Lex also tweets with some regularity.

Health-Care is fine just as it is!

I had cancer a few years ago. I like the fact that if I lose my job, I won’t be able to get any insurance because of my illness. It reminds me of my homeowners’ insurance, which gets canceled after a break-in. I like the choice I’d face if, God forbid, the cancer recurs—sell my house to pay for the hundreds of thousands of dollars in treatment, or die. That’s what you call a “post-existing condition.”

Jonathan Alter in Newsweek nails it.

Posted on August 4th, 2009