Do you have health insurance?

I don't in came with my job and left with my job (the joy of budget cuts).

Yes; it's through United...thank God. I use to be on Blue Cross/ Blue Shield and it sucked!

It's hard enough to afford for my wife and two children.

I have two policies we pay for but in less than a year will be heading to the senior medicare program and than supplemental. I am not looking forward to it because I am apprehensive on coverage aspects. I am a diabetic and need meds and my wife needs meds as well for Krones disease. As we are both retired on fixed income I hope we are not buried in costs.

if Medicare can even be classified as such... SOL and POS seem more fitting.

We did without a lot of things, but we and the kids always had paid up health insurance, yes....except for the 3 years when I offended a LESBIAN Physician's Assistant, Dr.wanna-be. INADVERDENTLY! I was NOT making any comment on her sexual orientation, in fact, I had NO clue she was a lesbian. NONE. But I did make an innocent remark that she was able to twist all around to say something different, and put some lies about me in my medical file that kept me from getting health insurance, until I found a Health Insurance company that understood the problem, and listened to my side. This whole thing just goes to show how personal bias and personal agendas can create all kinds of favoritism, and corruption in anything the government gets involved in. My company won't be doing any more hiring whatever, though, because we do not want to be the nannies of our employees, and pay for anyone else's health care. Who is hiring now? Nobody I know.

If you could call it that. I pay for deductable, & co-pay for each visit, & RX. The problem is, I'm under poverty level income!

I have the best kind I have an HSA so while my deductable is rather high and I pay for most things with cash (from my HSA account) if something catostrophic happends I have limitless money for the care. OH and teh contributions to the HSA are tax deductable! We already were sent a notice saying that the HSA will not changed based on the new ACA and we should continue as we have

military

14K a year..have to buy my own in N.Y. as a Small Business owner. Emblem..it has really decreased benefits, increased premiums. IF I didn't have it, and I was in the Hospital, I'd go under..they will go after your property if you own anything and can't pay the bill. THAT is why I do NOT understand having a Gov. Penalty for not buying Insurance. If you CAN afford it, and do not buy it, you will be charged and yes, Hospitals will take your assets

But it might be cheaper to pay the tax. Businesses will drop insurance for their employees. Obamacaretax will cost more and more and quality of care will get worse and worse.

hmm..you say businesses will drop insurance for their employees? Not mine, because the law says I HAVE to automatically sign up my employees for government health care, even the ones who already have it, and like their health care companies. NOBODY likes this "nanny" state, but I don't like the fines either.

I live in Canada. Everyone has health insurance.

18 hour wait in the Emergency Room?

That's the odd extreme situation personally I never had to wait more than a couple hours and even that length is rare. Its a lot better than being dropped off on a street corner in skid row in a hospital gown because you have no medical.(i.e. Los Angeles a couple years ago.

Can you prove that?http://redclaycitizen.typepad...

You know perfectly well it was true they had the footage of the ambulance dumping the people off.

News to me, can't prove it?

Look it up on the internet there is lots of articles on the subject from 2006. Here is one of many links
http://www.usatoday.com/news/...
but you can enjoy your system all you want I personally will take mine any day.

There are some real sickos in places like California, Illinois, New York and most democrat dominated states. They deserve jail. Prove you were one.

Sure, I have health insurance and since the onset of labor. But it's no good.

My Wife & I have Medicare ( that's it ) . I expect it to be BANKRUPT due to the " Theft Of $500 BILLION DOLLARS$$$$ going to ObamaCare " ! .............. THANKS OBIE !

Here in our little settlement, everything is "free". Everyone does their part for the good of the community to the best of their specific abilities. No one does anything they don't want to. So, no. No insurance of any kind. No money either. Here's our doctor, caught in a casual moment:

I've been paying for health insurance since 1977, could have brought two houses for the money spent!

I think I'm going to try to open a health savings account and then when I start making enough money get a high deductible health insurance plan.

Yes.... little expensive... five days in hospital for my first operation ever...

when I left.... had to buy some pain pills...$2.45... I am happy with that expense...bark

It's one of the reasons I choose to live outside of the U.S.

As do we. I can kinda understand why auto insurance is required but things have gone way too far.

Don't need it here in Britain with the NHS

I should have been more clear that this poll is for Americans; having people from other countries posting is going to screw up the poll data.

Sorry

No problem :p

I am sorry for your loss .

The whole country does

I should have been more clear that this poll is for Americans; having people from other countries posting is going to screw up the poll data.

ahh sorry

It's okay ^^

Sorry about your data but I'm sure some responses will be food for thought.

You are correct that it will be a tax imposed on those who don't have insurnce. This can only be done though if the state that you live in votes to implement Obamacare. The Supreme Court ruling gives each state the right to opt out if they so choose and forbides the Feds from penalizing them in any way. The court also ruled that it is illegal to force someone to buy something that they don't want. So the geds can't call this a penalty so it now has to become a tax

It was always a tax. It was Obama spin trying to tell Americans that he wasn't screwing them. Obama's entire administration is based on thinking that Americans are basically stupid. The sad part about it is that almost half of them are.