Do you have private health insurance...??

[Edwina's Secretary]

There have been a few ghastly examples here in the last year or so of people dying in the waiting room of the emergency...waiting for care. Waiting for hours and hours and hours...while employees ignored them.

Paying the most does not promise the best care!

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For most of my working life I havent had insurance. I currently dont have insurance at all.

[Twisterdog]

I have insurance now, through my husband's work. He works for a large international company.

However, for the ten years prior to us marrying, I had no insurance. I am self-employed and the premiums for a plan that was actually useful were literally more than what I made. A plan I could barely afford was completely useless.

At the same time, I did not qualify for Medicaid, even though I had a young child, was a single mother, and made below the poverty level. I did not qualify because I owned assets ... namely my business and house. So, if I would have sold my house, moved into public housing rent-free and quit working ... I would have had great insurance. Hmmm ... ya think there is something wrong with the American medical system?