I am currently with a staffing company as my employer. The only plan available to me, if I am working, is a limited benefit plan. I don't even bother. Partly because my work is so sporadic, and partly because it really doesn't cover anything.
I have spent most of my adult life without insurance and most likely will continue to do so until I qualify for Medicare, assuming it is still there when I retire. I have not seen a dentist since I fell off my father's insurance as an 18 year old. I pay for my vision care out of my pocket. Thank God I am healthy and have decent genetics and have not yet run into a major problem. If I were to be diagnosed with cancer or a severe chronic health condition, most likely I would die; since I refuse to go run up medical bills that I would never be able to pay.
How do you start a boycott ?? Don't buy health insurance anymore. Tell your fellow coworkers not to buy, your friends, family, etc. Have a meeting (party) at your house and get everyones attention and tell them. Then all them can do the same thing. We the people need to STOP being complacent and do something. I plan on doing this...lets see how far we can go !!
We need reform when there are so many people who can't afford reasonable health care, and insurance is largely a racket business. I am concerned about WHAT kind of reform we will have, because it isn't fair to make the public pay through the nose for the health care of people who choose to smoke, eat excessively, get unnecessary abortions, and many other lifestyle choices that result in high health care expenses.
My brother was fired from IBM after 18 years of employment (age discrimination). Not only did he lose a career but also his health insurance. He simply could not afford to seek medical service when he experienced unexplained rapid weight loss.
Finally, he sought help at a local free health clinic, but by then the renal cell carcinoma had metastasized throughout his body. He died only a few months later after diagnosis.
no insurance + no health care = late diagnosis and early death
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