Right now COBRA may be my best bet. It will be very expensive, nearly $1500 a month. But every agent I contacted yesterday started hemming and hawing that it could be very difficult for me to get private insurance because of my wife's and youngest son's existing medical conditions.
I would have to apply and be denied by two insurance companies then I could apply for whatever it is called that is legally provided to cover people like us. But this would take several weeks that I could not afford to go without insurance. The headhunter says he will build the cost of insurance into the rate being offered me, so I am quoting $9 per hour to cover the COBRA insurance. If they accept this, I will see if I can get private insurance for less then this sometime in the future. But it could very well cost me nearly the same to get insurance of the quality I need to cover my wife and youngest son, as well as myself and oldest son. Having been on the fringe of insurance in America all this millennia, I can say, it is a broken system. Way too many of us fall through the cracks. If you currently have affordable insurance the covers you well, count your lucky stars and cross your fingers you never end up on the side of the fence on which I have been. -------------- Ian Skinner Web Programmer BloodSource www.BloodSource.org Sacramento, CA --------- | 1 | | --------- Binary Soduko | | | --------- "C code. C code run. Run code run. Please!" - Cynthia Dunning ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:194522 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
