"H the K" wrote in message
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RLM wrote:
On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:59:18 -0500, thunder wrote:

On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:40:49 -0700, Jack wrote:


Sounds like you need to get a job with some benefits, and rescue your
wife from having to support you and from providing you with your own
health care.
Yeah, but ... tying health care to business is the wrong approach, IMO.
Besides the anti-competitive costs to business in the world market, if
you get sick with a long-term illness, you are SOL. A dirty little
secret, most employee health insurance policies end when you aren't
collecting a pay check. Try paying for CORBA with just a disability
check, if you even get a disability check.

This is usually the point when the insurance carrier declairs that it was
a pre-existing condition and refuse to pay anything. Been there for that
approach.



There are lots of dirty little secrets in connection with our current
health care insurance fiasco, and some of them are not so little and not
so secretive. There are all sorts of horror stories, for example, relating
to denials of needed service, making patients and their providers jump
through hoops, reimbursement horrors, et cetera.

It's sort of humorous that those who oppose the modernizations being
discussed think everything will get "worse" when the government steps in.
I suspect the percentage of those satisfied with the way social security
and medicare are run is higher than those who are satisified with the way
medical insurance is run.

Hell most of us in Medicare are happy with the product. No co pays, go to
the doctor anytime. Unfortunately it is threatening the Federal Budget.
We gets lots for very little. Sort of like the welfare people. Go to the E
room or Urgent Care for a cold or scratch. No costs. When I paid for
insurance for wife and I, paid about 1200 month, with a 2K deductible and
co-pays. Now we pay about $420 a month total with supplemental and no
co-pays.