Keep Your Health Plan Under Overhaul? Probably Not, Gov't Analysis Concludes - IBD - Investors.com
It's not too late to repeal!
Kiss your healthcare goodbye
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Keep Your Health Plan Under Overhaul? Probably Not, Gov't Analysis Concludes - IBD - Investors.com
It's not too late to repeal!
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as someone who has made the rounds with chronic medical probs and med insurance providers...I LOVE our new healthcare plan....Thank you very much...And am so tired of those who chronically seek to make every issue POLITICAL..This is about HEATHCARE not Obama...Get a life and grow up, is this really the first time in your life you have had to adjust to something, to someone else's needs
as someone who has made the rounds with chronic medical probs and med insurance providers...I LOVE our new healthcare plan....Thank you very much...And am so tired of those who chronically seek to make every issue POLITICAL..This is about HEATHCARE not Obama...Get a life and grow up, is this really the first time in your life you have had to adjust to something, to someone else's needs
Could you share just how the new bill has helped you out ...you seem to be real pleased with it...so any shared info would really be appreciated. I am in fear of it and what it MIGHT do to my healthcare. Thanks in Advance.as someone who has made the rounds with chronic medical probs and med insurance providers...I LOVE our new healthcare plan....Thank you very much...And am so tired of those who chronically seek to make every issue POLITICAL..This is about HEATHCARE not Obama...Get a life and grow up, is this really the first time in your life you have had to adjust to something, to someone else's needs
I'll admit that due to being in wedding-planning mode, I am clueless about the new healthcare laws.
For example, I know that in the past, people who have been on antidepressants can't get private insurance. I have several friends who have been dumped by their husbands and are in this situation. Insurance companies are afraid that these people will have an unsuccessful suicide attempt after which they will be on costly life support for many years. My friends have told me that they have asked for unsuccessful suicide attempts to be excluded for payment from their policies, and still they can't get health insurance.
So has Obamacare helped them? Or can they kiss healthcare goodbye and hope they don't become bag ladies if they get a serious illness?
For example, I know that in the past, people who have been on antidepressants can't get private insurance. I have several friends who have been dumped by their husbands and are in this situation. Insurance companies are afraid that these people will have an unsuccessful suicide attempt after which they will be on costly life support for many years. My friends have told me that they have asked for unsuccessful suicide attempts to be excluded for payment from their policies, and still they can't get health insurance.
So has Obamacare helped them? Or can they kiss healthcare goodbye and hope they don't become bag ladies if they get a serious illness?
It will help people with pre-existing conditions......eventually. Starting in 2014 insurance companies can not turn you down due to pre-existing conditions. For children this actually starts later this year, I think it's September. This is the only thing in the bill that I can see that will help our family, but it will be a HUGE weight lifted for many people.
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Well, I would say this, I have two college graduate, unmarried daughters who live at home..the down side of living at a gorgeous place..who will both be able to resume healthcare under our plans. That will allow them to achieve permanent status and healthcare coverage at their jobs. the next issue is a little more complicated but significant. that is my medications. I am on meds for CA and MS. The MS drugs have been terribly expensive and lots have been prescribed through the years. Thiking about the whole health care issue prompted me to take a closer look at all my meds and their benefit. The result was that I opted to discontinue all meds that I saw no benefit from. Of course, this did not occur with the CA meds. I am unwilling to risk reemergence of the Ca by stopping a med simply because I cannot see the benfit. But what I have done is seek out the cancer docs that can explain to me the benfits and these meds have a time limit ( ie, you need this for a year..). The MS meds just seemed to be given and taken forever. I am rambling again, I guess what I am trying to say is I have become a more efficient consumer. I began by making a list of all my meds, who prescribed and for what. Next I eliminated all meds for which I felt no benefit. I stopped all meds for MS but two. I was foolish to do this without my docs involvement and knowledge but it trimed my med list considerably. I just feel frustrated at the anti government tone of many posts. Too many folks just are so negative about our government..until they are in trouble and need something from it. It is your government. Hope this helped answer your question...
Well, I would say this, I have two college graduate, unmarried daughters who live at home..the down side of living at a gorgeous place..who will both be able to resume healthcare under our plans. That will allow them to achieve permanent status and healthcare coverage at their jobs. the next issue is a little more complicated but significant. that is my medications. I am on meds for CA and MS. The MS drugs have been terribly expensive and lots have been prescribed through the years. Thiking about the whole health care issue prompted me to take a closer look at all my meds and their benefit. The result was that I opted to discontinue all meds that I saw no benefit from. Of course, this did not occur with the CA meds. I am unwilling to risk reemergence of the Ca by stopping a med simply because I cannot see the benfit. But what I have done is seek out the cancer docs that can explain to me the benfits and these meds have a time limit ( ie, you need this for a year..). The MS meds just seemed to be given and taken forever. I am rambling again, I guess what I am trying to say is I have become a more efficient consumer. I began by making a list of all my meds, who prescribed and for what. Next I eliminated all meds for which I felt no benefit. I stopped all meds for MS but two. I was foolish to do this without my docs involvement and knowledge but it trimed my med list considerably. I just feel frustrated at the anti government tone of many posts. Too many folks just are so negative about our government..until they are in trouble and need something from it. It is your government. Hope this helped answer your question...
So what does one do if her COBRA ends in January 2013?That's the situation for some friends of mine. Bag ladies? They are not old enough for Medicare.
I don't know enough about the bill to know if there is an answer for them before 2014. But for those of you that have a job with health benefits and have a medical condition that would currently exclude you from getting individual coverage, hold on to that job until 2014!
The friends I'm referring to have never worked. I used to ask them what they would do about insurance if their husbands left them. They didn't seem concerned. What 50-something-year-old person has no pre-existing condition? Guess they'll have to find some kind of job with group health insurance until 2014.