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2003—“Health Insurance” |
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When CoMMensa, Inc., went belly-up on New Year’s Day, 2003, its employer-provided group-based “Health Insurance” also perished, and I forget how much we had to lay out for the temporary privately-based coverage that prudence dictated and the already-inflated costs of health care required. In fact, I don’t seem to have retained any documentation from whatever arrangements we made, nor even a recollection of the name of any associated vendor.
Being reasonably healthy, in those days, we hung on somehow until Medicare kicked in (for me) on the first of February, 2006, and two months later for Valerie, as we turned the magical age of 65. *If you’re wondering about the “scare quotes” in this text, they reflect my understanding that “health insurance” isn’t and never really has been insurance, in the usual (and sensible) sense of the word. Permit me to refer you to the extensive literature on the subject that is available, on the Internet and elsewhere. |
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