Bad plan

I stayed in a job for far longer than was good for me partially for healthcare. I didn’t want to leave without another job that would give me benefits, yet when someone I knew talked about their finance guy hooking them up with an individual plan, I gained my courage.

This was before the Affordable Care Act, and, like many times in my life, I did not ask enough questions. In retrospect it was really stupid having that plan because I paid a premium each month that I could have really used for other things, yet I feared being un-insured. It was such a bad plan that I generally put off going to the doctor due to the bills being so high.

Even now, I want smack myself for the stupidity of keeping that plan for years. And here we are now, when so many others are faced with the same situation.

I really hope that this system becomes so broken in the next few years that it’s not “Medicare for all who want it,” but a whole new government healthcare plan with the insurance companies cut out of it. That’s the only thing that makes sense. It’s just getting there that’s going to hurt.