Comments on: Health Insurance http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2009/09/10/health-insurance/ helen boyd's journal of gender & trans issues Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:17:33 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: kiri http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2009/09/10/health-insurance/comment-page-1/#comment-62781 kiri Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:33:13 +0000 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/?p=8976#comment-62781 A few years back, I *had* insurance, but the company found an obscure and complicated loophole. I actually downloaded the entire state insurance code and went through it. They were astonished that I found the key half-sentence. The whole fiasco was contingent on the co-occurrence of several unlikely conditions that my situation just happened to meet. Bottom line: a totally arcane clause in the regulations cost me thousands of dollars. Other countries get better outcomes for a lot less money. We should be able to reform the system *and* save a pile of money. But it won't happen because the insurance industry and corporate health care stuff the campaign coffers of the politicians. A few years back, I *had* insurance, but the company found an obscure and complicated loophole. I actually downloaded the entire state insurance code and went through it. They were astonished that I found the key half-sentence. The whole fiasco was contingent on the co-occurrence of several unlikely conditions that my situation just happened to meet. Bottom line: a totally arcane clause in the regulations cost me thousands of dollars.

Other countries get better outcomes for a lot less money. We should be able to reform the system *and* save a pile of money. But it won’t happen because the insurance industry and corporate health care stuff the campaign coffers of the politicians.

]]> By: Sarahgoat http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2009/09/10/health-insurance/comment-page-1/#comment-62780 Sarahgoat Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:49:14 +0000 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/?p=8976#comment-62780 I work for myself. Health insurance costs me $1000 a month, good insurance, but for me alone, and in another couple of years I won't be able to keep it, I'll have to go elsewhere. My children are still covered as dependents of another person. When one of them very soon doesn't qualify, I don't know what I'll do. I'm eager for Medicare to kick in, only about 11 more years. If I change providers, none of my ongoing problems will be covered. There needs to be a total re-invention of the insurance system. I don't like all of what Obama suggested, but I sure liked enough of it, and way more than I do of our current system. I work for myself. Health insurance costs me $1000 a month, good insurance, but for me alone, and in another couple of years I won’t be able to keep it, I’ll have to go elsewhere. My children are still covered as dependents of another person. When one of them very soon doesn’t qualify, I don’t know what I’ll do. I’m eager for Medicare to kick in, only about 11 more years.

If I change providers, none of my ongoing problems will be covered.

There needs to be a total re-invention of the insurance system. I don’t like all of what Obama suggested, but I sure liked enough of it, and way more than I do of our current system.

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