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Re: Help Us Help Molly Holzschlag

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Post by masklinn »

waterlion wrote: post #10
rtb wrote: post #5

(As a brit) I don't understand this: "Molly was employed at the small NPO Knowbility as the Open Web Evangelist. Knowbility was able to put her on Family and Medical Leave which allowed Molly to retain her health insurance coverage. The FMLA time period has ended and the only coverage available now is through COBRA." So she had health insurance, but now that she's ill and has to stop work, it is stopping? If health i…

I don't know which Labour party you're talking about. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_National_Health_...

Attlee's Labour.

Re: Help Us Help Molly Holzschlag

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Post by phonon »

DanBC wrote: post #24
rtb wrote: post #5

(As a brit) I don't understand this: "Molly was employed at the small NPO Knowbility as the Open Web Evangelist. Knowbility was able to put her on Family and Medical Leave which allowed Molly to retain her health insurance coverage. The FMLA time period has ended and the only coverage available now is through COBRA." So she had health insurance, but now that she's ill and has to stop work, it is stopping? If health i…

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/jun2009/... > Medical problems caused 62% of all personal bankruptcies filed in the U.S. in 2007, according to a study by Harvard researchers. And in a finding that surprised even the researchers, 78% of those filers had medical insurance at the start of their illness, including 60.3% who had private coverage, not Medicare or Medicaid. EDIT: Insurance is a scam and…

Only if you use a very lax definition of "caused"...more like "possibly contributed to".

See http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/06/elizabet...

and

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/07/consider...

Re: Help Us Help Molly Holzschlag

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Post by oijaf888 »

DanBC wrote: post #24
rtb wrote: post #5

(As a brit) I don't understand this: "Molly was employed at the small NPO Knowbility as the Open Web Evangelist. Knowbility was able to put her on Family and Medical Leave which allowed Molly to retain her health insurance coverage. The FMLA time period has ended and the only coverage available now is through COBRA." So she had health insurance, but now that she's ill and has to stop work, it is stopping? If health i…

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/jun2009/... > Medical problems caused 62% of all personal bankruptcies filed in the U.S. in 2007, according to a study by Harvard researchers. And in a finding that surprised even the researchers, 78% of those filers had medical insurance at the start of their illness, including 60.3% who had private coverage, not Medicare or Medicaid. EDIT: Insurance is a scam and…

How is insurance a scam? You are lowering the impact an extreme event has on you in return for the payment of monthly amount.

Re: Help Us Help Molly Holzschlag

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Post by fit2rule »

rtb wrote: post #5

(As a brit) I don't understand this: "Molly was employed at the small NPO Knowbility as the Open Web Evangelist. Knowbility was able to put her on Family and Medical Leave which allowed Molly to retain her health insurance coverage. The FMLA time period has ended and the only coverage available now is through COBRA." So she had health insurance, but now that she's ill and has to stop work, it is stopping? If health i…

Health Insurance isn't actually designed in the US to benefit the individual. Its defined to benefit those who sell health insurance.

If you can't pay: you die. That is an axiom of the entire insurance industry.

Re: Help Us Help Molly Holzschlag

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Post by fit2rule »

rtb wrote: post #5

(As a brit) I don't understand this: "Molly was employed at the small NPO Knowbility as the Open Web Evangelist. Knowbility was able to put her on Family and Medical Leave which allowed Molly to retain her health insurance coverage. The FMLA time period has ended and the only coverage available now is through COBRA." So she had health insurance, but now that she's ill and has to stop work, it is stopping? If health i…

>Thank god (and the Labour party) for the NHS.

On the one hand. On the other hand, it has created a nation-state currently in the death throws of a victim mentality.

Re: Help Us Help Molly Holzschlag

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Post by oijaf888 »

ck2 wrote: post #30

Best wishes to Molly for a speedy recovery and to feel better soon. Thank goodness she is famous, even if lesser known by the mainstream and friends can appeal to help her. For those that think the ACA (obamacare) will solve this after January, nope. A full half of the states [1] have denied medicaid expansion (because the supreme court ruled they could turn it down) which means if you fall into the gap where you "ma…

If you make less than (I believe its) 4x federal level of poverty in your area you are eligible for subsidies on your health insurance via the marketplace. The issue you are pointing out is where you make too much to qualify for your state's medicare plan but not enough to be able to pay for private insurance even with subsidies.

So its not that you make "too much" to get health insurance, but you make too much to get free health insurance but too little to live off of and pay for private health insurance.

Re: Help Us Help Molly Holzschlag

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Post by nonrecursive »

ck2 wrote: post #30

Best wishes to Molly for a speedy recovery and to feel better soon. Thank goodness she is famous, even if lesser known by the mainstream and friends can appeal to help her. For those that think the ACA (obamacare) will solve this after January, nope. A full half of the states [1] have denied medicaid expansion (because the supreme court ruled they could turn it down) which means if you fall into the gap where you "ma…

> Thank goodness she is famous, even if lesser known by the mainstream and friends can appeal to help her.

Healthcare in the US sucks, no doubt. But I'd say she's not getting support just because she's famous, which sounds cynical to me. Personally, I feel a great deal of gratitude toward her. Like others in the thread, her books helped me start my career. So it's not just about being famous - she's spent her life helping other people and now people want to help her back.

Re: Help Us Help Molly Holzschlag

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Post by rtb »

oijaf888 wrote: post #34
DanBC wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/jun2009/... > Medical problems caused 62% of all personal bankruptcies filed in the U.S. in 2007, according to a study by Harvard researchers. And in a finding that surprised even the researchers, 78% of those filers had medical insurance at the start of their illness, including 60.3% who had private coverage, not Medicare or Medicaid. EDIT: Insurance is a scam and…

How is insurance a scam? You are lowering the impact an extreme event has on you in return for the payment of monthly amount.

The scam is that they are skilled at not paying out when you need them.

Re: Help Us Help Molly Holzschlag

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Post by DanBC »

oijaf888 wrote: post #34
DanBC wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/jun2009/... > Medical problems caused 62% of all personal bankruptcies filed in the U.S. in 2007, according to a study by Harvard researchers. And in a finding that surprised even the researchers, 78% of those filers had medical insurance at the start of their illness, including 60.3% who had private coverage, not Medicare or Medicaid. EDIT: Insurance is a scam and…

How is insurance a scam? You are lowering the impact an extreme event has on you in return for the payment of monthly amount.

Insurance is a scam because insurance companies sell products with simple, big, headlines but complex fine print. They go to extreme measures to avoid paying out if possible.
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