Massachusetts’ recently passed mandatory health insurance law is about to fuck me over. As a marginally employed freelancer, I’m required to buy expensive private insurance or face heavy penalties. Next week I’ll be jumping through various financial hoops to minimize the damage this law will do to my own meager finances, but if anyone reading this has suggestions, please offer them.
The only silver lining I can see to Romney’s fiasco bill is that it will harm so many people that a single payer system will finally be seen as the only logical solution to the nation’s health insurance problem. I have no doubt that the military industrial complex and health insurance companies are the two black eyes on capitalism’s otherwise dandy physique.
I’m in no hurry to have a camera jammed in my colon, but I would like to have the option for regular checkups instead of waiting until blood shoots out of my bum or some other emergency befalls me.
Also, go Pats! I guess. I’m a proud playoff bandwagoner. I admit it. The regular season is for chumps with nothing to do on Sundays.
January 21st, 2007 at 11:08 pm
Argh, I’m so sorry. I thought it was supposed to be free or heavily subsidized for those with marginal incomes?
Also, have you heard Bush’s dumbass health insurance plan? He wants to tax people who get health insurance from their employers to help encourage people to buy expensive private insurance.
January 22nd, 2007 at 8:18 am
You might want to look at Catastrophe Insurance which would cover a hospital stay; however, would not cover regular office visits. This type of plan has lower monthly premiums but the deducible is a lot higher if you do need major medical care. Since your young and health the chances of this happening are minimal but always a risk. In addition you can also open up a Medical IRA where you can contribute to the plan like a Retirement IRA where the investment grows tax free and you can withdrawal from the fund to cover your medical expenses such as the deductible and regular office visits. Again since you are young enough and given the time value at which money grows, you could have a healthy Medical IRA by the time you really need it when you’re old and grey. Just some ideas to think about. Good luck and I’m sorry the government screwed you over again.
January 23rd, 2007 at 6:07 pm
What are they going to do Brian? Garnish your wages? I can’t imagine there can be serious fines against someone who doesn’t make more money then a (fill in funny job here, I am too lame and uncreative). While I have no knowledge of crappy Mass hafe baked health insurance laws, I am sure there is a way around it. Maybe you need to set up an LLC in Delaware (Your favorite state) or something. You’re smart I am sure you will find the loophole.
January 23rd, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Thanks everyone. And to clarify, I do qualify for the freebie aid. (Thanks poverty!) I just have to fill out a lot of forms and likely only be able to visit very shitty doctors.
January 25th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
Brian:
We haven’t seen a caricature of what’s ahead for people all over the world who cannot lose weight. A recent artile in the New York Times (Dec. 1/06) reports that a policy in West Virigina will actually punish Medicaid recipients who refuse to join weight-loss programs. Services will be cut down dramatically. It is one of the most cruel forms of punishment ever conceived in the heart of policiticans and the anti-fat movement industry.
No help has ever came forth from the established medical community for people who just cannot lose excess pounds. I conducted an extensive review of the medical literature and have discovered a medical treasure. You can be overweight, obese or pathologically obese all your life and live to a ripe old age free of cancer, heart attack and stroke, the three big killers. I would admonish all fat people to take a peek at my website, for once a program that supports fat people!
January 25th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
Brian:
I neglected to include My website, it is:
http://www.happyoverweightsmokers.com
January 25th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
While interested, I’d be more excited if it were a compilation of medical literature on short, doughy losers.
January 30th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Jon said: “I can’t imagine there can be serious fines against someone who doesn’t make more money then a (fill in funny job here, I am too lame and uncreative)”
I believe you’re looking for “dildonic lathe technician”.