Don’t we all have Medicare?
I’m now 63. for the first time in my life, I cancelled health insurance the day Obamacare went into effect. I’ve saved roughly $40k in after tax dollars and only put out $280 to a dentist (for two visits and x-rays) and $50 last week for a Dr. Appointment for my wife. And the doctor said it was just a “really” bad cold. She’s fine, now.
Health insurance is a ripoff. I’d love to get a $20k deductible policy for the big stuff, but it’s not Obamacare compliant.
So... you LOSE ‘insurance’ that is now THREE TIMES the price you used to pay, and which no one takes?
How awful...
I am FORCED to buy NY State marketplace, crony-capitalist expensive crappy health-care
Its like asking a slave if he worries about being forced off the plantation.
Some slaves might worry about who will give them their next meal and fear it. Other slaves will realize that its simply better not to be a slave.
If one is unemployed, a mere appendectomy could wipe out the entire family.
No, you’re better off.
All that matters is what they can splash the headlines, and broadcast in unison - that Trumpcare will kick people off health insurance, and have them dying in the streets.
If Ryan’s plan is the best POS we can get then, let’s do nothing and let Obamacare implode on its own, dying an ignominious death.
Bottom line, insurance is collectivism, and should only be used as an alternative to freedom as a VERY last resort. Certainly policy that lionizes it and worships the expansion of it is wrong. It pisses me off that the people who foist this crap on us have no personal stake. In a sane society, dogs would be eating their entrails as they watched and their houses would be repurposed as public toilets, all for the hubris to touch our freedom.
I just discovered on Monday that I lost my health insurance back in November of last year. I stopped receiving monthly premium notices, and therefore did not send them any payments, and they killed my policy after two months.
According to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, they have been sending me mailings. However, I have not received any, although I have gotten the premium notices for my two children from them without incident.
Something is fishy about all this, but Blue Cross was more than happy to make it completely my problem, despite the fact that I'm the one who discovered the error in the first place. Now they simply want me to sign up again. All of this after dutifully paying premiums without fail for almost 20 years.
It has occurred to me that, with two pre-existing conditions (both of which appear to have been resolved for over a decade now), this would seem to be a very useful way for Healthcare insurance companies to get rid of people they deem "too risky" with plausible deniability.
I have contacted the Florida State Department of Insurance and filed a report. They have now contacted Blue Cross, who has 20 days to respond.
Meanwhile, I remain in limbo, attempting to fix problems I did not create.