Health Care Crisis Hits Home
Email from my girlfriend, received 5 minutes after posting about Steve Wells:
My plan is changing again. If I were to stay with the same plan from last year the premium would be going up by 26.48%. My new options are a plan that goes up 21.19% and basically stays the same (except my birth control pill goes up $10 a month to a whopping $70: you know, the one that they swear has a generic, but doesn’t…),
Or a plan that goes up 8.83%, the pill stays the same, but doctor visits go up, my deductible goes up 50% ($1500), and my maximum out of pocket doubles to $3,000. In the last option my co-insurance is going from 80% to 70%. I don’t know what to do: my insurance was already unaffordable. Even with a slight pay increase to compensate I still won’t be able to have a savings account, and I may need to start relying on my credit card again. I don’t know what to do, but I have 24 hours to decide.
Let me itemize what the new cheapest option for my single, healthy, 29 year old self is.
$406 a month plus $60 a month for birth control, plus $25 a dr. visit, and if I get sick I go bankrupt. An average month in which I don’t see the doctor will run me around $580. If I need the doctor, throw in the visit plus the price of whatever he prescribes. What now?I literally don’t have the time or money to wait for Obama to pass what ever half-ass healthcare bill that the warring parties in the house and senate will take all the bite out of first. I’m caught. I literally don’t know what to do or what I can do.
The “greatest health care in the world”, wholly inaccessible and more unaffordable by the day for ordinary people. Goodness, I can’t for the life of me see why this Utopia should be changed, or why anyone would want to harass and harangue douchebag corporate whores I mean golden-haloed angels like Kay Hagan, Max Baucus, or Kent Conrad for their efforts to preserve the wonderful status quo.
June 25th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
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