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Monday, May 12, 2008 --- 72 days ago http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/health-care-as-the-new-te_b_101419.ht
| Thanks to America's health care system, today was a very stressful day for me. My story is so typical as to be boring - which is a really sad commentary.
This morning, while thumbing through some routine paperwork, my wife discovered that I have no health insurance. Without going into the details, we missed a bi-annual deadline for payment - a deadline that the company buried in fine print, and one that the company didn't even bother to tell us was approaching, or even missed after the fact. They just ended my coverage, with not so much as a letter or a phone call.
Fortunately for us, we discovered the situation before a 60-day continuity-of-coverage window closes, and I got temporary insurance. Of course, for bureaucratic reasons that I don't understand, I'm not allowed to re-enroll in the same plan I thought I was on. I have to wait to do that. Put another way, the health care company that had been gouging me, and then tossed me away without so much as a peep, is perfectly fine leaving me without coverage - even if I'm willing to pay for it.
I'm lucky in all of this. I am a sole proprietor so I get gouged on health care, but my wife and I have worked hard to save diligently to pay for coverage. We have the resources, and thankfully, we caught this problem in time. But what's frightening is how tiny an error you can make to watch your entire health care safety net be ripped away from you and your family.
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