Rumpleforeskin: Do You Have Health Insurance?
 

Curious about health insurance.
I do have a reason for asking.

I'm covered through my wife's plan. It pays to have a gainfully employed spouse.

I am also covered by my wife's plan, and thank goodness I am because my four days in intensive care cost $32,000 last year and that's just for the room.....

We use Blue Cross and Blue Shield for us and our employees. The rates are pretty reasonable.

I keep a position at another company mostly for its health insurance benefits.

In Australia we're actually lucky enough to have basic healthcare covered by a Government program called MEDICARE (which the current conservative government is demounting bit by bit) - on top of that we have a private insurance at lower rates than normal through my wife's job...

Knock on wood: I'm not getting seriously sick very often... Whenever I have things like colds or so (which doesn't happen that often, maybe once every 2 years) I tend to recover more quickly than other people.

Yes, I'm in Canada

I have Empire blue cross/blue sheild through my company

I think the rates are outrageous

I have Aetna with 3 employees -- you think BCBS is expensive :)

Once I hire a 4th, I can move over to BCBS.

Yep, blue cross blue shield of Florida here. Catastrophic coverage only...$30/month.

Just getting over a nasty bug...had me down for almost 2 weeks :( Ended up costing a whooping $69 to see the doc...another $60 for meds.

I only see the doc once a year or so...if that...catastrophic works fine and the price is certainly right :)

I only need to pay <$20 if I need to go to the doc, no matter what it's for.

We have insurance through my work.

We haven't used it yet since we got it, but that'll be changing here in the near future.

I have some very good insurance through my first job thank |buddy| cuz i would be in the hole right about now with the kids and the wife and all.
It is very pricey shit it cost my company about $700 a month to cover my family plan. And trust me we hear about it all the time cuz they fight us tooth and nile about it.

We have a family plan through BCBS.
Expensive as hell - but what do you do?

Does taking a daily multivitamin count?

'Cause otherwise, the answer is no. :(

I have insurance thru my company, so it that part of Option 1? I ask because it's not in my name, thus it's not an "individual" plan.

The company that provides me with insurance has switched plans four times in the last five years. Each time they switch I end up having to switch doctors again. Then the new doctors always seems to want to run some new tests. IMO health care in the US is a fucking mess. :(

i have those thru the goverment, and my hubby and kids have an individu plan thing and those are so fucking expensieve

I have a family plan though my husband's job.

Get it through the wifes work.

My wife works for an enormous company called Cendant and we have the whole family covered through their Signa plan. We're covered for everything except eye glasses.

Bill

No I dont, and I am looking. I need health coverage.

PAH! I wish! heh heh

no i do not have

Got one, paying a fucking $25 a month for it or something like that and I'm never sick :D

damn fonz thats cheap, me need to move to belgium:D i pay for myself the goverment one, 70 euro a month and my hubby pays 300 euro a month for him and the kids....

havent had it in years but am looking now that im getting older

Can she get me a better rate on the 2 mortgages that I have there? :D

Yes, I'm I Canada as well

I have my own insurance, does not cost me anything at the moment, but that will change over the next year, probably.

I have insurance through HumanaOne if you are completly healthy and they can not find any pre existing conditions then it is not bad but if you have a large medical bill come up they will check throughtly trying to get out of paying it

Brian

I have my own insurance, does not cost me anything at the moment, but that will change over the next year, probably.

I live in Canada we have half ass Medicare coverage for free so I have no need for insurance really.

Not all of Canada has free health care :(

Christ, this thread's title scared me much...

Does Alberta use private health care exclusively? Or a mixture of both 'free' and private like the Conservatives harped about during the last election?

Disclaimer: I voted Conservative. We all make mistakes.

Yes... in Denmark everybody has it. Paid for via taxes. Whatever is wrong... they fix it for free :)

We have a good deal here in Quebec if you have no money and don't mind waiting in a 3 hour line when you have a gunshot wound or some other minor problem.

Hey ADK the Liberals aren't a whole lot better these days!

I have health insurance through a company that I am a partner in. While I'm not an expert on health insurance with all the people running businesses off the web I am surprised there isn't sort of trade group offering group insurance for web businesses.

Steve

Disclaimer: I voted Conservative. We all make mistakes.[/quote]
And all of Canada pays for health care it is just hidden when we pay for taxes and such :(


In Alberta it is not private. It is government and is called Alberta health care and we pay roughly $275 per year, per person(not sure if it is different for families).


If your sick, or old, or just need good medical, then stay the fuck away from Alberta! :D