Use the Internet to Find Better Health Insurance
Written by Dr. Wealth on February 9th, 2012
www.lockergnome.com – Giving up a steady gig in the 9-to-5 working world can be terrifying for most Americans because of one thing: health insurance. It’s expensive in this country and it’s getting more expensive all the time. Without the safety net of regular doctor visits to make sure you’re staying healthy, being self-employed could mean you’re unintentionally neglectful for lack of health insurance that your employer once provided — but it doesn’t have to be this way! Here, we investigate some of the options the self-employed have when it comes to health insurance. You can watch the entire live TLDR episode here: youtu.be www.lockergnome.com profiles.google.com twitter.com www.facebook.com
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25 Comments at "Use the Internet to Find Better Health Insurance"
UK FTW! Noobs
Thankfully as a UK Citizen I dont pay health insurance. Makes me really grateful for the NHS.
Or move to the UK/Canada, then you won’t need health insurance
I support a public option or at least a buy in to medicare.
I’m French, and here, all is free, i do not need to spend any €
(AND it is not a communist country ^^)
Chris im self employed and i pay 500.00 a month for blue cross! for 2 people in there 30s
see you have to make sure you tell people if they change some stuff is not coverd for the first 6 months! so if you have helpcare now and you want to change becarefull
@cherrion11265 I agree that I also like the UK and France’s systems. But, you do pay for them, through much higher taxes than we face in the USA. Personally, I prefer the higher tax and universal healthcare (as we call it here in the use, that UK and France has).
I just did not want you to have the illusion it is free. It’s paid for one way or another.
@RodneyJ725 Certainly its not free. Its paid via Taxes, But I prefer it this way. I would hate to not be able to have life saving care because I cant afford the health insurance.
@100sons It’s not free,it’s paid by your higher taxes.Most people in America who have decent jobs have health insurance paid by their employer.Americans who are poor get covered by special program called Medicaid.Some people aren’t lucky and don’t have employer who provide health insurance,so they have to buy it on their own which isn’t cheap.Our doctors get paid too much and our insurance companies too greedy.We have to fix that!French system isn’t bad but it might fail here in the US.
@otamanlvhs the taxes are high when you’re rich, it is normal, and actually very close to yours for middle class like me. But you just have to watch sicko from michael moore (if you haven’t) to understand all the differences between health insurance companies who do everything to make more money on the back of people, and social security in france who’s managed by our government. /Sorry for my bad english ^^/
@100sons i’m working and i do pay higher tax to cover people inemployed too… Nothing is free…
Here here. I’m in the UK, had to spend over a week in hospital back in 2009 and a week last November – I dread to think how much it would’ve set me back in a country like the US. The NHS isn’t perfect, there could be some improvements here and there – but I’m glad we have it.
You don’t realise how weird “health insurance” sounds to us in the UK.
@marcybryck ok, just sayin’ that the health system is not managed well in United States, it is like a multinational, they need to do lot of profit, not in france.
@jacksimon67 and in europe in general
@vistarox and what is the fu**ing problem ? Socialism is not communism from staline… it is just the good way to manage money, riches give to the poorest people.
I’m from Scotland, United Kingdom… I would never pay for health insurance.. Glad we have the NHS… I even get prescriptions free now!
I still wish i lived in the US!
@100sons I agree with you completely. In theory, Socialism is a great idea. However, whenever Socialism is implemented it usually fails.
@vistarox But what country is failing completely because of capitalism and who’s bringing with him the world? USA. (I’m not sure that the sentence is ok ^^)
Two thumbs up for President Obama for trying to give Americans health care.—– Go to hell Repukes for blocking it. Thanks Chris
If our doctors agreed to get paid less and insurance companies weren’t that greedy,I think we wouldn’t have uninsured people.American system isn’t too bad but it’s too expansive and government controlled insurance probably wouldn’t solve that problem.
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@100sons The economy in the US is bad in the moment, but I wouldn’t say its failing. The bad economy is part of the economic cycle. Its rapidly improving and within three years it will be back to where it was. And other capitalist countries are in very good condition. Canada is the best example of this. The people are happy and the economy continued to grow, even while the recession was happening.
Do Canadians have a healthcare bill? Am I suppose to have one?
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