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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?"
and enjoy universal health care for about $100 per month for a family of 4, unless you can show economic hardship, and then it's free.
This drivel is modded "informative"?
Seriously? I don't know who's a more deluded, the OP, or the people who modded him.
Let's see - at $25/person/month , that's $25*12* 33'000'000 (population of Canada) = $9.9 billion US ~ $10 billion US
Total healthcare spending in Canada last year was $160 billion or so. So $10 billion was paid by the people, and the other $150 billion was magically wished into existence by healthcare fairies... that only grace the "good" countries with their presence.
There are plenty of problems to be addressed within the healthcare system of the US to be sure... but every time someone from Canada or UK (or more frequently, a troll from the US) buts into a conversation, droning on about "free" healthcare, I feel like smashing their face in with an accounting ledger.
Oh really? Then why did the Prime Minister of Newfoundland come to the US for heart treatment? Because the wait in Canada would have caused his death, that's why. He's 59 fer chrissake, why save him? And, skip the argument that he's got millions. He's doing what the Democrap morons in the USA want to end for all of us - free choice.
The disingenuous Canadians know that rationing exists in the Canadian health system. A 20-something or 30-something gets fairly quick care mostly because it's routine stuff. Go try for for something more serious, and be over 40 and you wait - wait until you die or leave for the US to seek treatment. Heaven help you if you're over 50.
Cut the bullshit and tell the truth Canucks. Your system only treats the healthy. It's like banks who only lend money to people that don't need it.
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Get this through your stupid head, **it's about the GDP, stupid!** Regardless of who pays for it, there is MORE PAYING going on in the US. A lot more paying. And the system is not 'better' by any measurable amount. This is what people mean by 'spending less on healthcare'... they DO SPEND LESS. A LOT LESS. Understand?
yeah, but it is not like the US employer sponsored healthcare is magic either.
Why is it that everyone that reads my comment assumes that I think everything is peachy. Just because I think the OP was full of shit, doesn't mean I don't have real criticisms for the way things are done here...
And why the fuck did I get marked "Troll" for this comment?
I am at the forefront of lobbying for REAL healthcare reform in the United States.
"couldn't make him a member without a birthdate"??? So, you wouldn't provide a birthdate to the insurance company? Or, you didn't add him to your insurance at his birth? Sounds like you missed the ball by not adding him. First thing we did when my wife had a baby was to contact the insurance company and have her added to the policy. Sounds like step 1 to me.