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Re:Does Employment-Based Insurance Make US Medical Care Unfa... by johnpowell on Monday May 13, 2019 @02:47PM (#19902497)
You might want a bigger pool. I'm 40 and was healthy until October when I was diagnosed with head and neck cancer. That was treated and two months after my last radiation/chemo treatment they did another PET scan only to find that the cancer has spread to my liver. I just finished up radiation for my liver a few weeks ago and on Thursday start immunotherapy. As far as I know immunotherapy is a ongoing thing for the rest of my life and it isn't cheap.

I stopped counting when my medical bills hit $750,000. It is probably double that by now. Again, normal healthy 40 year old guy that rode his bike everywhere who woke up one day with a sore throat that ended up never going away.

Re:Does Employment-Based Insurance Make US Medical Care Unfa... by maxxxxx on Monday May 13, 2019 @04:01PM (#19903342)
The correct size for an insurance pool is “whole country”. Nothing else makes sense.
Re:Does Employment-Based Insurance Make US Medical Care Unfa... by mjevans on Monday May 13, 2019 @05:02PM (#19903931)
It would be better to stop calling it "insurance". It's a medical costs pool.
Re:Does Employment-Based Insurance Make US Medical Care Unfa... by asveikau on Monday May 13, 2019 @03:19PM (#19902892)
Good luck sir. And to anyone here who is reading in similar circumstances.