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?"

Comments

Feh. Health Insurance.

[Pojut]

Look, don't get me wrong...I'm all for companies and industries working to make a profit. That is, after all, the entire point of capitalism.

That being said, FUCK insurance companies and the healthcare industry in general snubbing patient health to make a profit. As I said, I'm all about making money and I'm all about industry making money, but profiting off the misfortune and ill-health of people is the worst kind of dickery.