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eBay To Offer Health Insurance
Logic Bomb writes "EBay has announced it will be offering group health coverage for "full time eBay merchants". Anyone who grosses over $1000/month in sales -- at least a whopping 80,000 users in good standing -- will be eligible to buy into a typical "employee" health plan. This is a big first in the Internet world. Full details from the LA Times." And the LA Times, trying to cop a pose from the NY Times, reqs a login.
The important questions:
Will they allow you to give feedback to health providers in your area?
Can you pay with PayPal?
Will you be able to set up a doctor's appointment for organ removal and simultaneously list the spare kidney for sale?
What's your damage, Heather?
What happens if the reseve on your bid isn't met? Do you die?
Don't be misled. Today is Chinese April Fools Day.
-3Suns
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The Revolution will be Slashdotted
I wouldn't do this, my friend's sister's cousin tried getting a surgeon on eBay. He seemed nice and said he had great deals on triple bypass surgery because a "friend's" practice was going under and he wanted to use up the remaining surgical supplies as soon as possible. But the next thing she knew, she woke up in a bathtub of ice with two scars on her back and a note that said "Dial 911 Immediately"!!!!
Will you be able to set up a doctor's appointment for organ removal and simultaneously list the spare kindey for sale?
I find that prospect likely. Afterall, Ebay does provide you with the necessary (unused) tools.
I'm just waiting for eBay to start offering sick days and paid vacation so I can quit my day job.
"A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but doesn't have an air force." -William Blum
I think I'll pass on the /. insurance.
last thing I need next time I'm in a hospital is some troll adding "goatse" to the doctors "to do" list.
ow.
unless the slashdot insurance offered protection from robots. that's the kinda insurance you can live with!
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