Not completely happy with his response. Even if people take care of themselves, there will always be people who have medical problems that do not necessarily come about due to lifestyle choice or where the connection is yet undetermined, such as IBS, Fibromyalgia, CFS, and asthma.
There is a growing number of conditions for which no-one knows the cause, and these should be covered, especially for people who are disabled and cannot work the 30 hour minimum at his store and for whom the $2500 deductible is difficult to pay and the $1800 annual FSA only covers a fraction of their annual copays because the drugs they need are expensive. Those employees who are carefully spending their $2500 are doing so because their hourly wage can barely support them in San Francisco, or whatever yuppie suburb their Whole Foods is based.
I think people should be able to get health care with preexisting conditions and without it being attached to employment. This stifles disabled people from being entrepreneurial and self-employed to work the hours they can work with the mobility and limitations they have.
I'd like to see this change. I'd also like to see people stop getting married just to get health insurance on their partner's plan. As a single woman who may never get married again, I think this practice is social favouritism towards marriage and discriminates against singles. I also think that if you take care of your ailing mother or your post-college adult child who is ill or your live-in boyfriend/girlfriend, you should be able to put them on your insurance as your dependent.
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There is a growing number of conditions for which no-one knows the cause, and these should be covered, especially for people who are disabled and cannot work the 30 hour minimum at his store and for whom the $2500 deductible is difficult to pay and the $1800 annual FSA only covers a fraction of their annual copays because the drugs they need are expensive. Those employees who are carefully spending their $2500 are doing so because their hourly wage can barely support them in San Francisco, or whatever yuppie suburb their Whole Foods is based.
I think people should be able to get health care with preexisting conditions and without it being attached to employment. This stifles disabled people from being entrepreneurial and self-employed to work the hours they can work with the mobility and limitations they have.
I'd like to see this change. I'd also like to see people stop getting married just to get health insurance on their partner's plan. As a single woman who may never get married again, I think this practice is social favouritism towards marriage and discriminates against singles. I also think that if you take care of your ailing mother or your post-college adult child who is ill or your live-in boyfriend/girlfriend, you should be able to put them on your insurance as your dependent.