On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:05:59 -0800, Peter R. wrote
(in article ) :

On 2/11/2007 9:21:53 PM, C J Campbell wrote:

For myself, things have gotten so fouled up that I can no longer get medical
insurance in the state of Washington. Thanks to Mike Lowrie's insurance
'reforms,' there are NO medical insurers willing to cover anyone who does
not
work for a big corporation. Group Health and one or two others might do it
for big deductibles and premiums approaching $1000 a month. I am sick of
fighting taxing authorities, insurance companies, and everyone else who has
a
hand out. When I die, what the feds don't take, the state will seize the
rest. So it is all for nothing. With problems like that, user fees are just
another gnat sting. Foo.

As a self-employed individual who lives in another fouled up state (New
York), I totally share your pain. Family health insurance in these parts is
about 1,300/month, unless one wants to flirt with very large deductibles -
something I am currently doing.

I am convinced that many full time W2 employees (salaried or hourly
employees) don't realize what a real benefit health insurance really is. It
literally adds about US $15,000 / year or more to one's total compensation
package.



Now comes Arnold who wants to force everyone in California to buy health
insurance, even if the state has to garnishee their wages and put them in a
high risk insurance pool. I would like to see how that works out for the
millions of retired folks, families living on minimum wage, illegal aliens,
homeless street people, uninsured vacationers and business persons from other
states, and just plain poor people living in California. Maybe Arnold plans
to cover them with the proceeds from his next movie. Or maybe he will
'terminate' them.

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