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Health Insurance When Leaving the Corporate World?
An anonymous reader writes "I've been working at a large company since I got out of college, so I didn't have to give much thought to getting my own healthcare plan. Now I'm thinking about leaving the corporate world and starting out on my own. I have a family now, so I need to make sure we're going to be covered should anything happen. Researching online turns up horror stories of people trying to get individual healthcare plans, or getting denied coverage on plans they thought they had. Does anyone else have experience going through this and what you've had to deal with, or am I making too big a deal of it?"
If he didn't try to recruit you, then he isn't really in Amway.
If you must stay in the USA try the following: kill and eat the hearts of republicans (if you can find any that have one). Then you will gain their powers and be able to ignore your health problems until they go away. Do not move to Canada, their hockey team is bad. I recommend Switzerland or Sweden. If you don't like white people, try Singapore, Morocco, or Columbia. They all have better health care than the US. If you are picky about a country, check the WHO website. They have a list of countries with good health care.
If you have reached this point and are frothing at the mouth or hurling your mouse, lighten up and ebay yourself a sense of humor.
Or... just make your wife get a job (with benefits) and go on her so-called Health Care
Yes, but on the downside that you have to live in Canada now.
i don't care if its kaiser wilhelm, or otto von bismarck, keyser soze or this kaiser permanente fellow
its bad enough a certain socialist secret communist muslim wants to destroy america with healthcare reform
i'm a real american. i would rather die a slow painful death than get my healthcare from the czar, the mullah, the comandante, or the emperor of japan!
traitor
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Yeah, 'cause Toronto is hell compared to, say, Detroit or Saint Louis
The cleanliness, the low crime rate, the public transportation, the the socialized medicine, museums, shopping, restaurants, theater, schools, culture, tolerance, diversity ... ugh!
You're going to have to pry my filthy, morally degenerate, violence ravaged, disease infested American city from my cold dead hands...
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Yes, but on the upside that you have to live in Canada now.
I agree - when I was a kid, we would dream of only waiting 14 hours. We would wait half a fortnight outside just for the clinic to open up. During that time, the only people that would talk to us were the brigands attempting to rob us.
Take it to the limit, everybody to the limit, come on, everybody fhqwhgads.
Right, but now you have to live right next to mordor.
The grass on the other side of the Atlantic doesn't seem green at all. Looks more like rotten.
The grass was denied individual insurance due to pre-existing conditions, and the employer had to drop coverage because the costs of premiums increased from $5000 in year 2000 to over $16000 this year.
Meanwhile, Congress sat on it's hands and did almost nothing to help deal with the costs which were spiraling out of control.
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
The USPS is self sufficient. It has not taken taxpayer dollars since the early 1980's. It's one of the only fiscally responsible things Ronald Ray-Gun ever did.
I don't always use unix-like operating systems; but when I do, I prefer FreeBSD.
Wow. Really? Our media in the US is all the time trying all the time to convince us that socialized health care is best and private is crap. If we don't stop this madness we'll be like Europe in a few years.