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The sad thing is that I liked this article. I just don't want to get pulled into another political discussion on HN about it. The thing about these things is that they're like car wrecks. You know you should just keep going about your business when you see one, but for some reason, you feel compelled to stop and stare.
This really highlights how utterly insane our system is. I'm living off of my own business, which means that I don't have an employer to cover me under group insurance. But I really only make enough to live frugally and save a tiny amount each month--to me, an affordable health insurance plan would be between $50-$100 a month. Fat chance of that happening. And if it did, the deductible would be so high as to make the…
Have you looked into this (for California but there are different plans in every other state)? http://www.healthcare.gov/law/provisions/preexisting/states/... "$499 for a 50 year old subscriber in San Francisco" Looking at other states, there are premiums as low as $172/month. It would surely be much cheaper for you as a 26-year-old. Not quite the $50-100 you're looking for but I'd bet you could afford it. Things are…
You can see these plans for yourself by checking our Blue Cross or Humana in Florida, among others.
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But it's written by someone involved in the tech world, that makes it hacker news
I think it's hacker news because hackers struggling to become ramen-profitable (or even just thinking about it!) are directly affected by the cost and availability of health insurance. It's a big factor for many people in deciding whether they want to quit their cube jobs that keep them insured to strike out on their own.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordab...
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I think it's hacker news because hackers struggling to become ramen-profitable (or even just thinking about it!) are directly affected by the cost and availability of health insurance. It's a big factor for many people in deciding whether they want to quit their cube jobs that keep them insured to strike out on their own.
It's a big factor for many people in deciding whether they want to quit their cube jobs that keep them insured to strike out on their own. And I think that's total bullshit and people who don't want to strike out won't and will find lots of reasons not to, while people who want to strike out will, and figure out how to make it work. Kind of takes us to a rhetorical dead end, since we're both wildly speculating about…
This really highlights how utterly insane our system is. I'm living off of my own business, which means that I don't have an employer to cover me under group insurance. But I really only make enough to live frugally and save a tiny amount each month--to me, an affordable health insurance plan would be between $50-$100 a month. Fat chance of that happening. And if it did, the deductible would be so high as to make the…
Have you looked into this (for California but there are different plans in every other state)? http://www.healthcare.gov/law/provisions/preexisting/states/... "$499 for a 50 year old subscriber in San Francisco" Looking at other states, there are premiums as low as $172/month. It would surely be much cheaper for you as a 26-year-old. Not quite the $50-100 you're looking for but I'd bet you could afford it. Things are…
http://www.healthcare.gov/law/provisions/preexisting/states/...
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The sad thing is that I liked this article. I just don't want to get pulled into another political discussion on HN about it. The thing about these things is that they're like car wrecks. You know you should just keep going about your business when you see one, but for some reason, you feel compelled to stop and stare.
This is one of the few blatantly political articles I've upvoted here. Healthcare in the US is broken, and this article points out one of the big reasons why.
But once it took sides on the current issue of what to do with the national healthcare system, suddenly we're in a polarizing debate and not a discussion of startup problems and ways around them. That startup discussion would have been awesome. Posters talking about how bad the country sucks, how terrible X is, or how to create a movement for change has nothing to do with any of that.
The subtle but crazy part about this is at the bottom when it details the author: "Donna Dubinsky, a co-founder of Palm Computer and Handspring, is the chief executive of a computer software company." I'm going to go out on a limb and say money is not an issue for Donna, yet she still can't even buy insurance if she wants to. I've always thought healthcare access was a bigger hurdle for entrepreneurs than tax rates.…
I've said it before and I'll say it again - the MA health care law ("RomneyCare", which is functionally very similar to "ObamaCare") is really what let me start a startup - the money wasn't the issue, but the ability to get an individual policy at a reasonable (not at all subsidized, just group-negotiated) rate was.
This really highlights how utterly insane our system is. I'm living off of my own business, which means that I don't have an employer to cover me under group insurance. But I really only make enough to live frugally and save a tiny amount each month--to me, an affordable health insurance plan would be between $50-$100 a month. Fat chance of that happening. And if it did, the deductible would be so high as to make the…
Have you looked into this (for California but there are different plans in every other state)? http://www.healthcare.gov/law/provisions/preexisting/states/... "$499 for a 50 year old subscriber in San Francisco" Looking at other states, there are premiums as low as $172/month. It would surely be much cheaper for you as a 26-year-old. Not quite the $50-100 you're looking for but I'd bet you could afford it. Things are…