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17. Ever heard of COBRA, of bridge insurance? Of individual policy?
Sun Nov 3, 2019, 11:10 PM
Nov 2019

We moved several times and were always covered. Either through COBRA or through a bridge insurance. I know that in 1990, or1991, Senator Kennedy passed a law that allowed for eligibility from one job to another. Or something like that.

And often on a new job, one had to wait for six months, or so, before one can join. At some point I got tired of being dependent on an employer - mine or my spouse's - so I got an individual policy and had it until I became eligible for Medicare. And I was very happy with it, a Blue, in two different states. My spouse, too, was happy with the employer provided one so stayed with the same provider as a supplemental to Medicare.

Still, as I said. If you are unhappy, go ahead, join the Medicare for all. But let the rest of us stay with what we like. Millions like theirs.

You "don't have a choice" PPO, etc.? How ironic. Forcing everyone for Warren's expensive pipe dream certainly offers no choice.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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