I've got better health insurance than most people that are fighting against the public option...

Pryderi

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Tue Sep-29-09 08:57 PM
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I've got better health insurance than most people that are fighting against the public option...

am I an idiot?

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HuckleB

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Tue Sep-29-09 08:59 PM
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1. So do I.

No, you're not an idiot.

Is your insurance guaranteed to be there for your entire life?

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Rosa Luxemburg

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Tue Sep-29-09 09:01 PM
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2. Thre should be a sealth hystem in this country that doesn't involve vultures

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Ruby the Liberal

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Tue Sep-29-09 09:05 PM
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3. I have no complaints with my current plan.

Then again, I have never tried to test it with a serious illness on the charts and have convinced my doctors to treat my illness as "unconfirmed" while unofficially medicating me for it.

Color me afraid to use it - and therefore a HUGE proponent of Medicare-for-all.

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Zoeisright

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Tue Sep-29-09 09:06 PM
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4. You never know if you have good health insurance until you really need it.

Many Americans are finding that the insurance companies, rat bastards that they are, will do anything and everything to avoid paying on a claim.

We had 'good' insurance too. Until my husband got cancer, at age 25. Then we got screwed.

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Imalittleteapot

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Tue Sep-29-09 09:28 PM
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9. Yep. A great PPO plan with a decent deductible cost me out of pocket

in 2007 $20,000. Insurance paid out some big bucks but I have been paying them for many years without an incident. I got sick so they doubled my premium to over $1,000 per month and increased the deductible.

So, be happy with your insurance and hope that your luck holds out.

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Zoeisright

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Tue Sep-29-09 11:03 PM
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10. I'm sorry that happened to you.

For us, it was 1985 and $3,000. And that was a lot back then, when we were making less than $20K.

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Barack_America

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Tue Sep-29-09 09:07 PM
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5. Me too.

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BlooInBloo

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Tue Sep-29-09 09:09 PM
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6. (shrug) Fighting for people who are too stupid to fight for themselves is what we do...

I really wish we would take an interest in making smarter people one day, though - it would make everything else sooooo much easier.

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Ikonoklast

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Tue Sep-29-09 09:11 PM
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7. No. You are smart enough to know you just may need it one day.

Most of the ignorati think things will always be the same for them; never lose a job, get sick, or get denied health care coverage for any reason.

They think they will always be able to afford health care insurance, when the vast majority of working Americans are one family illness away from bankruptcy.

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WestSeattle2

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Tue Sep-29-09 09:20 PM
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8. I do too, but my coverage ends with my employment! If I get

laid off, my Cadillac-coverage ends. Almost all American's are at risk...they don't have insurance, they have insurance but could lose it by being laid-off, or the insurance they have is crap. No one is really immune (pun intended) from the ill-effects of our current system.

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