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Re:How to get rich without getting lucky by isolli on Friday June 01, 2018 @09:13AM (#17204949)
> because I had good insurance through my employer

However, you only get this peace of mind without being rich thanks to Obamacare (whose days may be numbered...). Before, you had to be rich to self-insure against the following events:

- What if you lose your job? It could take you longer to find one again than whatever Cobra covers, or a pre-existing condition could make individual insurance unaffordable.

- What if your insurance is not as good as you thought, and you hit a lifetime cap?

- What if the insurance company managed to conjure up a pre-existing condition to escape their obligations?

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Re:How to get rich without getting lucky by pc86 on Friday June 01, 2018 @02:33PM (#17208530)
> However, you only get this peace of mind without being rich thanks to Obamacare

Well that's really weird since this was in 2009.

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Re:How to get rich without getting lucky by isolli on Sunday June 03, 2018 @02:34PM (#17220980)
Sure you had good insurance then, but you could have easily lost it by losing your job. And before Obamacare the only way to be absolutely safe from the negative outcomes I listed was to be rich.
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