ManHealthIssue on December 30th, 2008

I’m costing out a 1 year hiatus from work, one of the concerns is
benefits cost as I currently receive from a cushy corporate job:
- Health (Doctors & Medicine prescriptions)
- Life, Accidental, Short & Long Term insurance
- Also interested in COBRA coverage & costing (if you’ve had to
recently depart the lazy M)
I’m looking at paying this [...]

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ManHealthIssue on December 30th, 2008

All Things Considered, December 24, 2008 ยทย  For supporters of a
national health insurance plan funded solely by the government, you
would think things are looking up.
There’s a new Democratic president about to take office, with
substantial Democratic majorities in the U.S. House and Senate. So,
many people think a “single-payer” health care bill could be on the
verge of [...]

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ManHealthIssue on December 30th, 2008

Not many people are buying cars built 60 years ago. No one is
watching TV on a set manufactured in the 1940s. Patients are not
lining up to see a doctor who hasn’t cracked a book since before the
polio vaccine was discovered. Why, then, do millions of Americans get
their health care through an employer-based system from the [...]

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A freelancer’s perspective on health insurance
By Zach Everson
Many labor experts and economists believe that workers in the United States stay in jobs they don’t like because health insurance here is tied to their employers. While I broke out of that shackle, I understand why so many people …
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