HEALTH INSURANCE

[Duchess]

Over 1200.00 a month for two people !...Two !...It burns my ass to write that check...What the fuck are people doing who can't afford it ?...Are they suffering & dying ?

[sally]

That's what it costs me and the premium goes up every year. And you better make sure it's good health insurance because I know many people who ended up sick and what they thought was good insurance turned out to not cover shit.Bastards!

[The Antagonist]

You are getting off cheap. Are you using the SBOA insurance plan? That one is a GOOD plan and DEEP discounted.

The plan for a couple / family here is over $3500 a month. And that's for a shitty coverage plan and high deductibles and copay's.

People are doing without if they can't afford it or their companies are not covering all or most of it for them. They go to walk in clinics and sometimes even the student doctor clinic where you pay on a sliding scale as per income at hospitals.

Having owned a business when I was married, we as employers had an additional expenditure for having health insurance options for our employees - it cost us something like 10K and upwards (depending on how many employees were on the plan) just to HAVE the policy. Then we also paid half their premiums on top of that.

I've been working with my congressman and state senator for years trying to reform insurance in this state but it's been shot down every time by the democrats and now I've no republican rep to get on my side with this. It's fallen by the wayside.

Yah, I tried the dems but they just won't listen. Our new rep for my area won't even entertain what I've had going all this time with the one that was replaced in this last election.

[Cynical Ninja]

What the fuck are people doing who can't afford it ?...Are they suffering & dying ?

Yep.

Over 50 million Americans have no health cover or care at all.

[OnBendedKnee]

[user=32]Ordinary Peephole[/user] wrote:

What the fuck are people doing who can't afford it ?...Are they suffering & dying ?

Yep.

Over 50 million Americans have no health cover or care at all.

And therein lies the reason why health insurance is expensive. No one is turned away from an emergency room. Unfortunately, some are regulated to using the ER instead of setting up an appointment with there health care provider because of their lack of insurance.

I wish there was an easy fix, but there isn't. Canada, with their government health care offers waiting lists of several months for treatments. Many affluent Canadians cross the border for their health care.

It is easy to talk of Government bailouts as the end of our civilization, as we know it, but I'm afraid it is health care and run away inflation that is going to be what Americans suffer from the most. (Or course it can argued that the one is causing the other...)

[OnBendedKnee]

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[sally]

Who here is from Canada? I've only heard good things from the few people I have talked to from Canada. Yes there is a waiting period, but it's more like a month or two thanseveral months. That's better than no treatment at all in my opinion. Sure you can go to the hospital here and be treated , but they won't treat you for a long term illness like cancer.

[SyberBitch]

I'm a small business owner with no health care insurance. Fortunately, I don't need medical care that often.

Oh, and I've never heard anything truly 'bad' from Canadians about their govt health care. Every single one I've spoken to, has said they would rather have their system than ours. The only things they have to 'wait' for, are the larger expensive procedures. If they get sick and need medicine, they just go to a clinic and get service the same as we do (but without the financial reaming).

[D]

I'm a small business owner with no health care insurance. Fortunately, I don't need medical care that often.

Oh, and I've never heard anything truly 'bad' from Canadians about their govt health care. Every single one I've spoken to, has said they would rather have their system than ours. The only things they have to 'wait' for, are the larger expensive procedures. If they get sick and need medicine, they just go to a clinic and get service the same as we do (but without the financial reaming).

That's not "financial reaming" its "asshole enlargement procedure"

[Maggot]

I have to pay for free coverage. 80.00 per month family plan.::90% company covered. And it's not State work.::But I'm as healthy as tortoises on a barren island.

[The Antagonist]

That's damn cheap Maggot.

[Lady Cop]

...But I'm as healthy as tortoises on a barren island.

so was i the day before my heart attack. worked 12 hours and was in an altercation with a large male. felt fine. never sick in my life before that. i am thankful my sheriff took good care of me during my recovery.

[Duchess]

jb, at the time this happened, did you understand that you were in cardiac arrest ?

[Liquid]

I have Blue Advantage and pay just north of $400 for myself and my son's health insurance coverage. My wife has her own insurance through her work

[Lady Cop]

jb, at the time this happened, did you understand that you were in cardiac arrest ?

i had all the classic symptoms, but refused to believe it. i never arrested, but had a myocardial infarction, extremely painful.i waited 4 hours to call my own 911. by then there was no denial. i wrote emails, called my love/fiance in England, and left phone messages for family members. fire-rescue called my LT. and he came to ER. i was cracking jokes with the cardiologist who was about to operate on me. but i was finally scared at that point.