Here's a fun game
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rolanniGo here: http://www.anthem.com/health-insurance/plans-and-benefits/health-insurance-plan/ME
Click the blue button on the upper right corner that says Compare Quote Apply Online
Cancel the pop-up demanding a password; you don't need a password for this.
Fill in the form: zipcode is 04901 county is Kennebec Your applicant is male or female born on some date that you find felicitous in 1952. Your spouse is male or female, natal day sometime in 1950. No children. Hit the orange button at the bottom of the form that says Get A Quote.
Note that the rates you will receive on the next page will change (i.e. Go UP) on June 30.
Take a look at the offerings. Play with the drop-down boxes. Have a ball.
Note that Anthem is THE health insurance provider for individual policies in the state of Maine, unless you count the semi-scam MEGAhealth. Dirigo Health Care (created by the former governor of Maine to provide...more affordable... health insurance to individual and small (as in one or two or ten person) businesses), is in the process of being dismantled by Mayor LePage, so is no longer an option -- not that it ever was much of an option, as byzantine as its payment system was.
Now! Who wants to take the side that the insurance industry isn't freaking outta control?
Click the blue button on the upper right corner that says Compare Quote Apply Online
Cancel the pop-up demanding a password; you don't need a password for this.
Fill in the form: zipcode is 04901 county is Kennebec Your applicant is male or female born on some date that you find felicitous in 1952. Your spouse is male or female, natal day sometime in 1950. No children. Hit the orange button at the bottom of the form that says Get A Quote.
Note that the rates you will receive on the next page will change (i.e. Go UP) on June 30.
Take a look at the offerings. Play with the drop-down boxes. Have a ball.
Note that Anthem is THE health insurance provider for individual policies in the state of Maine, unless you count the semi-scam MEGAhealth. Dirigo Health Care (created by the former governor of Maine to provide...more affordable... health insurance to individual and small (as in one or two or ten person) businesses), is in the process of being dismantled by Mayor LePage, so is no longer an option -- not that it ever was much of an option, as byzantine as its payment system was.
Now! Who wants to take the side that the insurance industry isn't freaking outta control?
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Date: 2011-05-18 09:25 pm (UTC)I am self employed.
I pay a few pennies short of $1000 (yes, ONE THOUSAND) dollars a MONTH for health insurance. For just me, a single person.
That's just premiums -- I still have $100 to 250 a month in office and pharmacy copays (the plan that gets rid of those costs $1300 a month). Oh, and did I mention there is NO dental coverage at all, and only 1 eye exam a year is covered with no coverage for glasses or contacts? Add on more $$$ for all that.
Why do I spend so much? Because to be covered by any of the less expensive "state" plans I would have to go without insurance for a while (to become "uninsured") --and I have preexisting conditions that I can't risk not being covered for.
My medical costs me much more than my yearly income is. How do I do it? I sold the family home and moved in with a friend, and use the proceeds from the house to buy insurance.
Gee, THANKS, Mitt. Yes, healthcare is broken. But I pay MORE now for less, and can't take "advantage" of the "public option". How is this fix any better?