Oh well maybe George Q will get to itxf85goblinJuly 2 2007, 19:08:53 UTC
I rustled through my bumroll and found next to my 12 reciepts for having voted in the year 2000, a vauge promise to work on healthcare. I am dead broke and therefore in a wierd way, I got health care. Mind you, it is wierd and don't feel every elective surgery desire would be catered to but I do have some. BTW, if you ever want to feel icky about the value of a dollar do QUICKEN. at $75,000 you have hopes that your car isn't turning to rust and your brain isn't turning to soup from lack of amusement. The right to retire to anything better than "The Price is Right" in the day room and to have that tumor you and your sweetie(s) have always wanted requries a tad more.
I have an individual plan that I got sorta-kinda this way - I didn't have coverage through an employer but through a professional association. People who'd been in the professional organization less than some number of months when they were forced to cancel their insurance coverage were SOL, though.
This doesn't really count as private underwritten health insurance though. The companies only offer it because they are required to by law. The time before this one, when I lost coverage (my COBRA period ran out), the only individual option available cost $10,000 a month, no that's not a typo. (It wasn't underwritten either, it was offered by law, but at that point the law had not specified that the plan had to be offered at a reasonable price.) I got lucky with the professional organization at that time. The professional organization was also able to offer health insurance only by law, a CA law that required insurers to offer plans to non-profit organizations who met a certain set of criteria.
Yes, me too, in Virginia. It really helped because I'm no longer insurable because I'm seriously chronically ill. I got Medicare, too, so I have the HMO's Medicare plan.
Most people (59.5 percent) were covered by a health insurance plan related to employment for some or all of 2005, a smaller proportion than in the previous year (59.8 percent). As the largest component of private health insurance coverage, this decline in employment-based coverage essentially explains the decrease in total private health insurance coverage, from 68.2 percent in 2004 to 67.7 percent in 2005 (Figure 6).
18 and 34 -- possibly paying for college and going to school? supporting a dependent? working several jobs to make ends meet which, in the past, may have come with health insurance and now don't?
Grrr, i wonder if this is in some response to Sicko opening this weekend. In a quick montage of folks not able to get insurance there was a "too skinny" young man and a "too fat" young woman.
You don't even have to be fat. I have a friend who's a lawyer, married to another lawyer. No problem affording health insurance, right? Guess again. She has chronic hormonal imbalances and can't carry a child to term. No health plan will cover her, even as her husband's dependent. Yeah, this is "choosing to spend her disposable income on other priorities."
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BTW, if you ever want to feel icky about the value of a dollar do QUICKEN. at $75,000 you have hopes that your car isn't turning to rust and your brain isn't turning to soup from lack of amusement. The right to retire to anything better than "The Price is Right" in the day room and to have that tumor you and your sweetie(s) have always wanted requries a tad more.
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- Get coverage through an employer.
- When leaving the employer, continue coverage through COBRA.
- Apply before your COBRA coverage runs out.
We did it all through the mail - no weights were asked, and certainly no physicals.Reply
This doesn't really count as private underwritten health insurance though. The companies only offer it because they are required to by law. The time before this one, when I lost coverage (my COBRA period ran out), the only individual option available cost $10,000 a month, no that's not a typo. (It wasn't underwritten either, it was offered by law, but at that point the law had not specified that the plan had to be offered at a reasonable price.) I got lucky with the professional organization at that time. The professional organization was also able to offer health insurance only by law, a CA law that required insurers to offer plans to non-profit organizations who met a certain set of criteria.
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(Crap, Bush just commuted Libby's jail sentence.)
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Thanks for the pointer.
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Most people (59.5 percent) were covered
by a health insurance plan related
to employment for some or all of
2005, a smaller proportion than in the
previous year (59.8 percent). As the
largest component of private health
insurance coverage, this decline in
employment-based coverage
essentially explains the decrease in
total private health insurance coverage,
from 68.2 percent in 2004 to
67.7 percent in 2005 (Figure 6).
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Grrr, i wonder if this is in some response to Sicko opening this weekend. In a quick montage of folks not able to get insurance there was a "too skinny" young man and a "too fat" young woman.
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