- My wife was diagnosed June 08 with cancer. She is in the hospital now.
- My company had an open enrollment yesterday and the enrollment packets are due today.
- I can't add my wife to the policy because it is a pre-existing condition without so-called 18 months of continuous coverage.
- I don't understand the math: 9 months at my old job + 9 months of Cobra after I got laidoff = 18 months.
- I doesn't really matter because my wife and I could have avoided all of the private insurance company deceptive and manipulative practices if only that low-life Lieberman had stay out of the national health insurance fray.
- The question is: how much did the private insurance lobby pay Lieberman? Or, is he just looking for a spot in the history books?
- I will be 59 next month and my wife is 53 and we could have happily continued life with Medicare.
- Now, my wife faces the specter of the non-coverage nightmare even though I am working and I have insurance I am paying just to make the private insurance company fatter with no chance of getting even a single claim covered. And, most importantly the coverage that is needed the most by my wife.
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