HBox
10-01-2003, 03:21 PM
43.6 million Americans have no health insurance. It is becoming more and more expensive. More than a quarter of my mother's check every two weeks goes to health insurance. Meanwhile, the premium goes up every year and we still end up having to pay more. Co-pay's for medicine and doctor's visit's go up. The deductible goes up.
Trying to get private insurance outside an employers is so ridiculously expensive as to not even be an option to many Americans. COBRA, which allows you to keep your health insurance after you lose your job for up to a year, is a complete joke. You are stuck paying the whole premium, which is often more than twice what you had been paying. And how exactly is anyone supposed to afford that after losing a job?
Insurance is expensive. Hospital services and treatment are hugely expensive. Drugs are expensive. Doctor's visits are expensive. Anyone have any solutions?
Some form of National health care?
Subsidies to employers who provide affordable insurance?
John Kerry's plan where the government provides insurance for the most catastrophic illnesses, thereby hopefully lowering insurance premiums?
Leaving things as is because, quite frankly, you're healthy, don't need it, feel invincible, and don't really care?
I'd prefer national health care, but feel that Kerry's plan has the best chance of ever happening.
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Trying to get private insurance outside an employers is so ridiculously expensive as to not even be an option to many Americans. COBRA, which allows you to keep your health insurance after you lose your job for up to a year, is a complete joke. You are stuck paying the whole premium, which is often more than twice what you had been paying. And how exactly is anyone supposed to afford that after losing a job?
Insurance is expensive. Hospital services and treatment are hugely expensive. Drugs are expensive. Doctor's visits are expensive. Anyone have any solutions?
Some form of National health care?
Subsidies to employers who provide affordable insurance?
John Kerry's plan where the government provides insurance for the most catastrophic illnesses, thereby hopefully lowering insurance premiums?
Leaving things as is because, quite frankly, you're healthy, don't need it, feel invincible, and don't really care?
I'd prefer national health care, but feel that Kerry's plan has the best chance of ever happening.
http://members.aol.com/joepersico/myhomepage/sig1.jpg?mtbrand=AOL_US