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ARGH

Jun 29, 2010 16:21

So I need seamless health insurance. Current crappy catastrophic policy (only good for the DC area with grudging emergency coverage elsewhere) ends June 30th. Travel insurance starts July 3 and ends August 14th. Between August 14th and 29th I'll be in WA, mostly backpacking. In case I fall of a cliff or something, I need insurance (probably endemic ( Read more... )

argh, health insurance

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coffeewurm June 30 2010, 01:03:54 UTC

Here here. This is a topic I can get very ranty about very quickly but suffice to say, I completely understand.

daemonfamiliar2 June 30 2010, 02:33:50 UTC

Won't you be able to get health insurance through Michigan, once at Michigan? For that matter, is it possible you could get it from them now, if you're already enrolled? (This makes it look like it, yes? Maybe? http://www.uhs.umich.edu/msa#eligibility You could also call and ask, if you haven't already.) I don't know how that works in terms of not being in Michigan the whole time, but it seems like school insurance would expect you to be bouncing about.

Now that I'm a student again, I'm able to get back on my parents' health insurance for free. But I think that option ends once you're 25, even if you are still a student...

I AM GOING TO SEE YOU SO SOON.

coffeewurm June 30 2010, 04:09:01 UTC

I thought it was 27 under the new healthcare bill...

daemonfamiliar2 June 30 2010, 04:17:54 UTC

Oh, maybe. Has the new healthcare bill kicked in? I thought it wouldn't for a few years.

mercurydraconix June 30 2010, 04:11:45 UTC

Silly roommate! If there were streamlined logical health insurance then somebody would actually have to PAY when you get injured! This way they can all discount responsibility and save their hard-earned money!

drabheathen June 30 2010, 06:02:35 UTC

Until 26 under the new healthcare bill, and it oh-so-unconveniently kicks into gear this fall, when we both turn 26.

syntaxvorlon July 2 2010, 05:44:46 UTC

God you people are so old.

<-turns 25 in 2.5 weeks

Unfortunately health care is rationed under a system where rich people get to decide who deserves to get it because rich people are the only ones with enough capital to put together a system that can provide health care, or fail to profitably.