[tri-med] Re: get informed
- From: "jwaite" <jwaite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tri-med@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:21:31 -0400
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From: <phil46@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> My uncle owns a wholesale floral/plant business in CA, & he gives his
> employees the choice of insurance or the money, and a large percentage of
> them take the money.
Most of the people I know who are in that position 'take the money' because
they have a spouse who has medical coverage and they don't need a second
insurance policy as the money is more helpful.
Also, if you are healthy it's a better crap shoot on not having the
insurance.
But all it takes is one fall off the ladder, a lump in your groin or a
pregnancy gone bad for you to be financially ruined.
In our early marriage we went without insurance because we just didn't have
the money and I worried every week about it.........it was awfully scary to
contemplate the 'what it'.
Got to tell you, reading about people who don't have insurance 'by choice',
I don't know any of these people!
Those I know who don't have it do want it. There's no choice in the matter.
And a lot of people I know who purchase their own insurance, well it costs
them the ability to afford other things that many take for granted.
It would be a relief for many for the insurance chasm to get a bit more
even between the have and the have nots. There such a wide gap between costs
to the individual and the type of coverage available.
Michelle mom to Alex (22, partial trisomy 14 mosaic) and Molly (18)
MichiganUSA
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