How many of you still have health insurance?
 

Health Insurance in the US sucks my left nut and enjoys the right one at the same time!

Paying $925 per month for health insurance!!! Fuck! Just got notice , it went up! Unbelievable! Whats up with this?

No wonder millions of people dont have it....how about you?

god damn dude wtf is wrong with you that you pay 1k/mo? I pay 300 for my wife and myself

I have it, but it basically sucks. I have asthma so my coverage considers that a preexisting condition and won't cover anything related to it. So I have a plan, but it basically just covers catastrophic stuff and I pay for doctor visits and prescriptions out of my own pocket.

it can vary from type and policy? you must have HMO with high deductibles and prescription costs?

I'm paying 40$ per month ;)

I have it through work for $180 a month but I never use it. It's got insanely high deductibles.

Consider yourself lucky - our family coverage was $1660 a month (and would have gone up again in May) --- we just switched to a high-deductible plan that's around $850/month, but the first $3000 of expenses we pay out of pocket. The new plan is still a lot cheaper on an annual basis (we have a LOT of medical expenses, unfortunately) - but you're not paying as much as some people :helpme

I do and it's a fucking bitch....... $500+ per month (single coverage).

I don't have any because I pretty much never get sick and I live a very safe lifestyle. I've been to the doctor once in the past 10 years because my ear was hurting.

With that said, this post will probably jinx me.

Those of you paying this much, do you actually use it?

I checked it out some plans and it seemed like a total rip-off. The worst thing about it is even if you have it they try and get out of paying!

It only takes one scan, one helicopter transfer, one crazy medicine to make insurance useful. It's easy to say it's a ripoff until you need it and then you are fucked.
I have it and even though I've paid huge premiums (cobra=shit) its still been worth it.

I have the same plan I had six or so years ago. It's only went up like $50 since I initially signed up.

wtf!! that's insane..

i have 2 because i work in the netherlands and live in germany and pay like 150 dollar per month for the dutch one and because i have one in the netherlands the german one is free. and not to forget i get 50 dollar back each month from the goverment.

yes of course we have it for everyone in the office

hospital visits are free here as well as doctor...but medication and dental...eye doctors etc...they all cost extra...so we cover them

I used to but, dropped it. Then I broke my foot and found out that if you don't have insurance, you get discounts from Dr's and hospitals if you pay cash. I guess that proves to me that they jack prices up for the insurance companies.

go get every test done that you can think of, and get your money's worth! They wanna be jerks, you be a bigger jerk than them.

I pay $997 for family plan with Kaiser. Deductible is $25.

I got awesome coverage thanks to the wifes job :)

The doctors get paid shit from Insurance i see it on all the claims they make the actual charge and what they actually get paid so when ya give em cash it saves em headaches n stuff...

when i see my Doc to get blood work done Ii tell him yo bitch test for evrything and i let him do whatever he want

i like it when he fondles my balls

I pay about $200/month as a healthy single forty year old man for my health insurance through an HMO in Florida called Vista.

Luckily I can go to the veterans hospital anytime for free. :)

Geez, what kind of coverage do you have? I've done a lot of shopping for coverage for my family and I and get great insurance for a third of that. Unless you're real old or have some debilitating conditions, I don't see why its so high. Go shop around, www.ehealthinsurance.com

Without introducing politics into this thread, Obama has proposed the idea of creating lots of local health clinics. This would make healthcare easier for many, based upon convenience. In addition it would allow uninsured people an alternative to hospital emergency rooms (a huge problem), it would create some jobs in construction and health care, and finally (and this is not mentioned in the idea, but is pretty important) these clinics may become critical for all of us if some sort of pandemic flu-type virus occurs, or if there is any sort of bio-attack.

The idea that bailing out the banks, who mismanaged all of our money while lining their pockets without regulations, is somehow more important than healthcare funding, is just absurd to me.

how does this all pay for itself?

oh.. yeah... it doesn't. tax payers have to pay for it. how does it sustain itself financially?

oh yeah... it can't.

what role does convenience play in the economics of it all? it doesn't.


i guess this will just all be done by rubbing the magical unicorn and waiting for money to rain from the sky as we go through a massive economic depression.

I agree, I just switched because Humana went up to $550 for my family, shopped around and found another plan that is like $400 including dental, $2500 deducible, 90/10 coverage.

Health care is the primary reason people fall into debt and file for bankruptcy. The economics behind it would be that this would help lower-middle class households cut out their most expensive bill. It would allow them to be more productive and have the ability to pay off their mortgages and credit card bills. That helps banks who provide those lines of credit.

assuming thats true, that does not mean i need to be the one paying for it. it certainly doesn't mean that socializing medicine (which will require retarded tax levels and a retarded amount of money) makes any sort of sense in today's economy.

and talking about any sort of health care reform without talking about tort reform is totally pointless.

Taxpayers pay for almost everything at almost all times. Who pays for paving the roads? Who pays for social security? Who pays for medicare?

WHO PAYS FOR FUCKING WARS?

WHO PAYS FOR CORPORATE BAILOUTS?

WHO PAYS FOR NEW WEAPON TECHNOLOGIES?

YOU DO - I DO - WE DO!!!

Why not add healthcare to the mix - or is that one too many things for you to accept?

They also jack up the prices for Medicare and the like... even regular vendors do. Total bull shit if you ask me... I'm perfectly fine with businesses working for profit but I want to know why Medicare has to pay higher prices for the same products.

I know you have to use at as the talking point, but it's not the reason most doctors have high prices. Malpractice insurance is small percent of their total expenses (around 7%). It's about the same as it was 20 years ago.

A bigger issue for doctors is the costs they have to put out toward nurses. The shortage has increased their salaries dramatically over the years. Getting more nurses through school and into the marketplace would help lower health care costs a lot.

As for it coming from taxpayers, that's how our government works. We don't get things a la carte. I rarely drive but still pay for roads. I don't agree with the war in Iraq yet still pay for the costs associated with it.

I was talking to be a lawyer the other day and he said that malpractice lawsuits account for less than 0.05% of the money going around. His point being that everybody always says "if malpractice lawsuits did not pay such ridiculous amounts in judgments, healthcare would be cheaper for everyone" and it isn't exactly true. I don't know if I totally believe that though... maybe the amount of money being paid out is only just a fraction, but then why do doctors always say malpractice insurance is so ungodly expensive? Either the doctors are lying or the insurance companies are making out like bandits... probably a little bit of both.

why not?

really?

Government can't do anything at all with any degree of efficiency. This isn't even debatable. You just elected a guy who promised he wouldn't sign a bill with Ear Marks and the first bill he signs has what.??? 6000? how many Billions? close to 50 Billion?

How about this... how about we get government under control... get spending under control? Then ... we can take the billions and billions of dollars saved and do some good with it instead of trying to figure out how to raise taxes, punish success and waste money to "fix a problem" which never happens anyway and which just creates the inevitable problem of trying to throw good money after bad to "make it work" as it flounders.

Kaiser Soze doesn't sell health insurance, he sells DEATH insurance! :winkwink:

That's a valid point. There is a massive nurse shortage right now. I'm also convinced there is a doctor shortage but I haven't seen any numbers on that...

was paying 335 a month for a 2k deductable this year they upped it to 390 a month for no reason.. sucks living in NY for expensive health care.. my plan is oxford and was through ehealthinsurance

The system sucks where if you buy an individual health care plan they fuck you in the ass

Hollyshit..... somehow the $70/mo I am paying don't seem expensive anymore.... I have Blue Shield btw.... single / PPO ($900 deductible a year)

I have my assistant researching group plans so I can start offering it as a benefit.

Whatever happened to the guy a year or so ago that was going to make a group healthcare plan for webmasters ha