Health Insurance - Pre-existing Condition
Just for anyone who does not know, if the laws are changed and insurance can once again be denied due to pre-existing conditions, most of us have one.
Four years ago I needed to purchase health insurance. I was denied because of my pre-existing condition which is weight loss surgery. The policy I finally found was $1,300 a month for a single 64 year old woman.
If I had not have had surgery, it would have been about $700.00 per month buying on my own.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
This is scary. I can't think of a person who doesn't have a preexisting condition. My family and I toyed with moving, but now I feel it's too risky to give up my gov't job and low cost/full coverage health coverage. I'm staying put till some grass grows under Trumps feet.
5'6.5" High weight:337 Lowest weight:193/31 BMI: Goal: 195-205/31-32 BMI
My experience was in 2012. Under Obamacare, they cannot deny you or charge exorbitant rates for pre-existing conditions.
President-elect Trump has said he will replace Obamacare with a health savings account. How good are you at saving? My open heart surgery this year was $200,000.
This is a good time to hang onto good insurance if you have it.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
No one knows what will happen to health insurance. I am hoping any changes made will help everyone, especially people like me who now have to pay a lot more for my family's health insurance.
This probably would have been a better reminder BEFORE the election. From the numbers I am seeing, over 40% of people eligible to vote did not vote. This is the lowest voter turn-out since 1996. That makes me sad.
Laura in Texas
53 years old; 5'7" tall; HW: 339 (BMI=53); GW: 140 CW: 170 (BMI=27)
RNY: 09-17-08 Dr. Garth Davis
brachioplasty: 12-18-09 Dr. Wainwright; lbl/bl: 06-28-11 Dr. LoMonaco
"May your choices reflect your hopes and not your fears."
