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Doesn't SF have a free health plan that covers anything the city hospital can do. (well not free but you pay with extra tax on retail products). Does this drive
by csmeder 16y ago
Doesn't SF have a free health plan that covers anything the city hospital can do. (well not free but you pay with extra tax on retail products). Does this drive down the price of the KP plan?
- starkfist 16y agoThe SF city plan is for individuals who make less than $55K. I could have paid less for my insurance but I was making a lot of money and hadn't seen a doctor in a decade, so I wanted to make sure any horrible condition I had developed had the best care options available.
- csmeder 16y agoDo the news articles about Health insurers using the question "do you have any past health issues" and only looking into your past if something expensive comes up. I read about this woman who had something minor, such as ear infections as a child you, and forgot to put it on the intake form. So years later when she got cancer the Insurer dugg into her past and found the minor issue that she forgot to put on the intake form. This was such a big deal a Senator grilled the insurance company about it but they responded with "we are just doing what we our stock holders hold us to" or something like that. I wish I could find the article that talked about this.
- lsc 16y agoyup, it's a big deal, and a big reason to get on a group plan rather than getting individual coverage. Keep in mind, though, group plans usually cost more (because they accept unhealthy as well as healthy people, while the individual plans only accept healthy people.)