Check this one out from Just One Minute comment - about an Ohio story

[dick thompson]

Doesn't saw which Ohio fishwrap unfortunately.   As the other commenter 
says $30K/year for med insurance???   When I ran the benefits, payroll 
and personnel computer systems a few years back the most expensive 
insurance policy we carried was $14K/year and that covered just about 
everything you could think of.  When I retired 5 years ago the top 
insurance policy at Citibank was nowhere near $30K/year.   Just cannot 
fathom how they can possibly justify this and for people who put nothing 
into the program.


Speaking of seeing the future, the roll-out of Bammycare in Ohio was 
explained in the local fishwrap this morning. Get this: The feds are 
sending $152 meeyun to insure 5,000 "high risk" people on September 1. 
That barely puts a dent in the 17,000 number that purportedly qualify 
from a study "from several years ago" (it would be nice if these 
gatekeepers could give actual numbers instead of weasel words) and is 
completely negligable to the 1.3 meeyun uninsured in the state. So let 
me get this straight: The "high risk" people get to take over $30K out 
of the pockets of non high risk people and that's just fucking fine?

Mrs H has a friend that's in the "high risk" category or so she assumes 
(she has some auto-immune disease that's pretty damn expensive to deal 
with under her current insurance, which massively subsidizes her 
treatments). I told her good luck on getting this coverage from 
Bammycare after her private insurance goes belly up. Guaranteed she 
voted for Il Douche so sucks to be her.

Posted by: Captain Hate | July 31, 2010 at 05:27 PM


The feds are sending $152 meeyun to insure 5,000 "high risk" people on 
September 1.

That's a cost of $30,000 a piece.

Is there any *real* insurance policy in the world that costs that much?


Posted by: Rob Crawford | July 31, 2010 at 06:57 PM

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