So I haven't had health insurance since August 12, 2005, which is very close to two years ago. Other than the strange green tonsil fungus I grew for a week while in EnZed and the two toenails that I lost in the Andes, I've had very few health concerns. Now Massachusetts has passed a law that requires all adults to have health care and even offer semi reasonable plans for low income folks such as myself.A step in the right direction. What they have also done is passed a law for businesses, mandating that they provide a health insurance option to full time employees. Again,this seems progressive in our country and another step in a good direction. I met with my boss today to review my new options and realized the glitch is that the kind of insurance that a small business can provide, at least the one that I work for, is nearly twice as much a month as Commonwealth Cares. So why not just sign up with CC you ask? Because now that my employer provides an insurance option I am no longer eligible to enroll with CC.
I can't really afford either plan, but I have the feeling that I am actually getting quite screwed.
And if I continue sans insurance, I get screwed at tax time, slapped with something like a $300 fine. This is at least slightly cheaper.
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