Your money and your life — that’s a cute line. But out here in the real world, the U.S. has the highest rate of per-capita health care spending, and the highest rate of amenable mortality (deaths that could be prevented by appropriate medical care) in the industrialized world. Does Hsieh not know this?
I also wonder why you call it insurance. How in the hell can you insure against something you actually have? I’ve been thinking about it while I set up a new business. My wife has asthma and allergies and why would an insurance company cover something she actually has? There’s no business case. The very best you could call it is risk hedging, but that’s not the same as insurance.
Still, keep telling yourself that what you have is somehow better than what the rest of the industrial world has.
It also occurs to me, my wife had an entrometriosis removed a year or so ago, the probability of a reappearance of these benign tumors is pretty much 1:1, so again, what should we do? Make sure we have $30K saved up somewhere to cover the future surgery? Or make sure she stays in a job with “insurance” so we’re effectively dumping the problem on her employer?
Or fly back to the UK and get it done on the NHS? Might be a better option.
Oh and here’s another story, sorry about the source.
Your money and your life — that’s a cute line. But out here in the real world, the U.S. has the highest rate of per-capita health care spending, and the highest rate of amenable mortality (deaths that could be prevented by appropriate medical care) in the industrialized world. Does Hsieh not know this?
Funny, I keep reading people on your site and you say how good the healthcare is, then I come across this: http://rachelcaine.livejournal.com/140398.html
I also wonder why you call it insurance. How in the hell can you insure against something you actually have? I’ve been thinking about it while I set up a new business. My wife has asthma and allergies and why would an insurance company cover something she actually has? There’s no business case. The very best you could call it is risk hedging, but that’s not the same as insurance.
Still, keep telling yourself that what you have is somehow better than what the rest of the industrial world has.
It also occurs to me, my wife had an entrometriosis removed a year or so ago, the probability of a reappearance of these benign tumors is pretty much 1:1, so again, what should we do? Make sure we have $30K saved up somewhere to cover the future surgery? Or make sure she stays in a job with “insurance” so we’re effectively dumping the problem on her employer?
Or fly back to the UK and get it done on the NHS? Might be a better option.
Oh and here’s another story, sorry about the source.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/7/751100/-How-I-lost-my-health-insurance-at-the-hairstylists