"Ignoramus25972" wrote in message
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On 2011-02-09, PrecisionmachinisT wrote:

My 27 yo son was laid off of his job in construction in ~ 2007 where he
had
been employed for nearly a decade building apartment buildings in the US
for
a Canadian "Investment firm"...

Eventually, he was unable to keep up with Cobra insurance premiums and so
he
had to drop his ( as well as my grandkid's ) health insurance after an 18
months time period finally elapsed.

Fast forward 7 months where he again became against all odds employed
working for a paving company that was fixing the deteriorated interstate
road systems in our region.

All a Sudden No big surprise

My 4 yo grand daughter gets excluded because of "pre existing conditions"
same carrier even

**** them **** all of you inthe insurance industry and **** all of you
tha
SUPPORT THEIR BULL**** PROFIT CLAims we ****ing work all of our life and
next thing we know we are getting ****ed on and my grand daughter with
leukemia gets the shaft and my son goes entirely bankrupt.


He has already lost everything and is now
almost two decades late in even starting a retirement account



Very sad. Many people fear a catastrophe risk like this, for good
reasons.

In fact, if people knew that they can have affordable medical
coverage, more of them would become entrepreneurs instead of being
stuck in jobs just because of medical coverage.

i

I think, perhaps, but not necessarily, also that they would start savings
accounts, not buy that 196" PlasmaTron HiDef TV WITH surround sound, not buy
a new car every 18 months, eat out less, not have to wear those $60 jeans
and $300 cowboy boots, not pay $12 for a tube of lipstick, not pay $150 to
take the family out to dinner, and find other ways to set aside money for
the important things in life.

Some people lose it all through no fault of their own, and went down with an
admirable fight. Others live from paycheck to credit card, and wail when
the bill comes in the mail.

We do need some reforms in the insurance situation. Those reforms do not
include providing better health care for criminals than our own citizens,
and then putting the burden of payment on the backs of people who do
actually work. Your son and granddaughter are fighting a valiant fight.
Too bad they're not Mexican citizens who have been in the us for nine years
but can't speak English yet. Their hospital care would be a walk-through.

Steve