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Poll: What's your Health Insurance status?
All this talk about health insurance, so I'm wondering what your status is.
- cperciva 17y agoPlease add a "Health Insurance through my country" option for those of us who don't live in the US.
- vaksel 17y agodone
- ashleyw 17y agoBritish national health service. I've had a lot of health problems in the past, but money has never become part of it. A for-profit organization deciding on whether you get treatment or not has always seemed a little sick to me. Not to mention leaving 70,000,000 people without any or proper healthcare, which is quite frankly disgusting. Even the poorest Briton can rely on the NHS…
- yummyfajitas 17y agoAssuming you are referring to the US, the actual number is 46.6 million. Even that number isn't a complete picture. 14 million of the uninsured are eligible for free government insurance (medicaid/SCHIP), but just haven't bothered to sign up. Another 27 million earn at least $50,000/year and just want to spend their money on other things (70% of these people are uninsured for 4 months or less, so they are probably just declining COBRA). http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/25/who-are-the-uninsured/ http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/25/who-are-the-... That only leaves 5.6 million people. Fun fact: there are about 11 million illegal immigrants in the US, according to wikipedia.
- lsemel 17y agoI got health insurance through mediabistro.com
- abalashov 17y agoHave own/individual health insurance, but only for catastrophic situations - it has a $5000 deductible. There may be one or two deductible-exempt office visits with a small copayment covered every year, but aside from that, basically any routine medical expenses I might reasonably have that do not constitute an emergency or a grave illness are my own.