Doesn't saw which Ohio fishwrap unfortunately. As the other commenter says $30K/year for med insurance??? When I ran the benefits, payroll and personnel computer systems a few years back the most expensive insurance policy we carried was $14K/year and that covered just about everything you could think of. When I retired 5 years ago the top insurance policy at Citibank was nowhere near $30K/year. Just cannot fathom how they can possibly justify this and for people who put nothing into the program.
Speaking of seeing the future, the roll-out of Bammycare in Ohio was explained in the local fishwrap this morning. Get this: The feds are sending $152 meeyun to insure 5,000 "high risk" people on September 1. That barely puts a dent in the 17,000 number that purportedly qualify from a study "from several years ago" (it would be nice if these gatekeepers could give actual numbers instead of weasel words) and is completely negligable to the 1.3 meeyun uninsured in the state. So let me get this straight: The "high risk" people get to take over $30K out of the pockets of non high risk people and that's just fucking fine?
Mrs H has a friend that's in the "high risk" category or so she assumes (she has some auto-immune disease that's pretty damn expensive to deal with under her current insurance, which massively subsidizes her treatments). I told her good luck on getting this coverage from Bammycare after her private insurance goes belly up. Guaranteed she voted for Il Douche so sucks to be her.
Posted by: Captain Hate | July 31, 2010 at 05:27 PM
The feds are sending $152 meeyun to insure 5,000 "high risk" people on September 1.
That's a cost of $30,000 a piece.
Is there any *real* insurance policy in the world that costs that much?
Posted by: Rob Crawford | July 31, 2010 at 06:57 PM
Speaking of seeing the future, the roll-out of Bammycare in Ohio was explained in the local fishwrap this morning. Get this: The feds are sending $152 meeyun to insure 5,000 "high risk" people on September 1. That barely puts a dent in the 17,000 number that purportedly qualify from a study "from several years ago" (it would be nice if these gatekeepers could give actual numbers instead of weasel words) and is completely negligable to the 1.3 meeyun uninsured in the state. So let me get this straight: The "high risk" people get to take over $30K out of the pockets of non high risk people and that's just fucking fine?
Mrs H has a friend that's in the "high risk" category or so she assumes (she has some auto-immune disease that's pretty damn expensive to deal with under her current insurance, which massively subsidizes her treatments). I told her good luck on getting this coverage from Bammycare after her private insurance goes belly up. Guaranteed she voted for Il Douche so sucks to be her.
Posted by: Captain Hate | July 31, 2010 at 05:27 PM
The feds are sending $152 meeyun to insure 5,000 "high risk" people on September 1.
That's a cost of $30,000 a piece.
Is there any *real* insurance policy in the world that costs that much?
Posted by: Rob Crawford | July 31, 2010 at 06:57 PM
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