I want to be to rent a decent 2-3bed room apt. Have a car. Eat out at least twice a week. Have decent cloths(but not too expensive). Travel once a year for 10 days. Health insurance. And at the end of the year, still have money to save.
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Would you try to go to another country where you could get a legal abortion? Would you try to illegally obtain one in your own country if you couldn’t travel? Or would you resign yourself to going through with the pregnancy?
Bonus question: What if you also didn’t have health insurance? Would that effect your decision, the prospect of having to go through a pregnancy with limited access to proper medical care?
NOTE: Those that have moral objections to abortion, or who simply wouldn’t want to have an abortion themselves can skip this question as it is not pertinent to you.
My girlfriend and I are both RT’s looking to travel next year and we were wondering about different travel companies that anyone recommends. Specifically we are looking at San Diego and I’m curious if any companies offer health insurance.
I work on film crews. It an be a long time between movie projects, so I deliver pizzas between crews instead of going on unemployment like many of my film crew buddies. I also own some crappy land, which I inherited, that won’t sell. It’s just sitting there on the market, screwing me out of qualifying for anything and everything my tax dollars are used for in the way of entitlement funding.
I live in a travel trailer. As soon as I have to start paying an upwards of 0 a month for health insurance that is only going to go up, up and up now that pre-existing conditions must be covered, I’m going to have to move into a tent.
What part of this is "affordable?"
I am buying plane tickets to costa rica and nicaragua through cheaptickets.com. When entering my information, I am given the option to add Ticket Protector Plus through Access America for an additional .43. It looks like some sort of insurance program. Does anyone know anything about this service?
I can’t tell if this is an alternative to other travel health insurance that would normally cost 0 to 0.
Here is a link to the terms and conditions:
https://www.cheaptickets.com/shared/pagedef/content/legal/intAirTravproPlusTC.jsp?popupsDisabled=false
I am currently 26 years old living in Fl. I have an overwhelming urge to travel…and travel more than a week. I prefer and seek to travel with a backpack and my trade skills to support me for as long as I can till I must return. My dilemma is I am a Type I Diabetic and rely solely on insulin shots daily for meals. I can buy my scripts in 3 months packs, provided I have health insurance, which I do by my employer. If I quit to travel abroad for X amount of weeks, months, maybe years, how does one even make this happen? How is health care abroad and can I seek medication to survive on a daily basis with my condition? Can I set up scripts overseas? How if any way possible , can I make my dream come true but in the safest and healthiest way possible. I would basically need access to reasonably priced medications wherever I end up ( UK, Italy, Spain etc. )
Ok, so this Health Insurance option thing…i’ve read articles about it, and I just don’t understand it. I’ve been working a lot lately, so would someone please explain to me exactly what it is?
One thing I’ve come across that concerns me is that we would be fined 5000 a year to NOT have insurance. Does this apply to everyone in the country without some form of insurance or medicare already?
What about the homeless? Will they be fined? What about independent contractors? The Gypsies? College Students? I’ve spent years as a college student, with little to no work, traveling on my breaks from city to city, camping, selling jewelry for gas money. Thousands live this lifestyle all the time and never get an actual job. Will these people be fined 5000 dollars a year? Will the bum on the corner begging for change be expected to pay for health insurance that could cost thousands of dollars or a hefty fine when he’s struggling just to keep warm?
When I heard the idea that people with preexisting health conditions could get insurance, I thought it sounded like a great idea. But I didn’t think about the problem…someone never pays for the insurance, gets in a car accident and calls up saying "oh yeah i want insurance now", Insurance, the very word, means to be insured that if you pay a company to remain a business, they will always be there when you do fall ill. What is stopping people from getting insurance for 2 days, get insurance rates, and then cancel the next week? This means those who actually abide by the policies will inadvertently pay for the people who will screw the system over. Pre-existing conditions….it does really suck to be born with a terrible illness like epilepsy for instance…but to allow just anyone with preexisting conditions?
I have been against the "Free Health Care" idea for a while. Though it sounds nice, it’s just one of those ideas that won’t work, will put us in debt , won’t be fair to anyone, ruin the health care system in general, and the government will likely destroy everything about it. However, as irresponsible as it is, I would rather pay extra taxes and have the public option. I’d rather pay extra for others to be covered, rather than getting fined 5000 dollars because I refused to live the way the government expects me to. I’d rather pay more taxes than see the government pass an unconstitutional bill and MONOPOLIZE millions of business.(and this is coming from a Tea Party Patriot…)
So could someone explain this to me?
Homeless people go to free clinics or have medicaid? Not all of them, but even if that was the case, they’d still be forced to pay?
Yes you get fined if you don’t have an address! Not to mention, if you don’t pay this fine you could go to jail.
Links:
http://www.factcheck.org/2009/11/imprisoned-for-not-having-health-care/
This one DOES answer my first and initial question, but what in the hell is the POINT of making the rich pay for insurance, when the POOR are the ones that really need it? So I can’t be sure if this is actually accurate. I simply don’t have time to read the 1000 page billl.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_030810/content/01125111.guest.html
What they are doing is making insurance NOT insurance, forcing people who are more likely to pay for healthcare in the first place to get insurance, even if they don’t like it, and leaving the poor out anyway. Some bleeding hearts. Sounds like a load of crap to me
Wait, did you seriously just ask me why would anyone buy health insurance and cancel it? LOL
Tell me your joking.
Well let’s see. I get sick, but never bought insurance. I want to go to the doctor, but SHIT, I don’t have insurance? I make a phone call, have them deduct so much out of my bank account to go to the doctor, pay the deductible, save hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars. I go home cancel my plan, and don’t get billed every month for the rest of the year. I just got a discount because the government forced the insurance companies to let me get away with it! What a bunch of morons! Now, all those poor suckers who decided they needed health insurance all the time, pay larger amounts to cover what they might need for health care in the future, and took care of mine!
Requiem, I had already acknowledged that since it was in "Add Details" long after I posted the question. Now my questions are HOW does this help poor people? How does this entire situation NOT increase insurance premiums? How can you call it insurance at all anymore?
Statistics show that over 77 million Americans struggle through life without a car. I propose that we all get free transportation, maybe an Escalade or a Hummer for all Americans. It is every Americans right to be able to travel around without being oppressed by the rising costs of transportation. The other day a capitalist pig mechanic said I couldn’t get my car back unless I paid him for the work that he did. Another case of "The Man" sticking it to us common folk, at least if I don’t have health insurance the hospital still has to treat me for free. Who agrees that this country needs leadership who will give us free stuff?
What documents/insurance do I need when travelling to Amsterdam from the UK.
I have a valid British passport.
I also had a Europian Health Insurance Card but I have lost that along with my National Insurance Card.
i work for a small company (5 employees) so we do not have a health plan.
i don’t have health insurance, but for my own and my families sake, i should get some.
how can i get affordable coverage that i can rely on. i don’t want some healthplan where i have to single out a clinic for all my needs (i travel alot throughout the country, so it should be a plan that is accepted in most states)
plus i’ve heared about aflac as a supplement insurance that covers some basic things) ideas, suggestions?
I know its in the wrong section but I’m a really good answerer and please just answer it’ll only take a minute. Thank you, love you all 
If I decide to go to the states, on a whim, is it mandatory or just suggested that i have travel and health insurance?
I am 18 years old, a legal adult.
I am from Philippines and will be going to Poland soon. I will be using a Zaproszenie or an official invitation letter since my travel will be sponsored by my boyfriend who is a Polish. However, will my boyfriend needs to pay my health insurance in Poland? I would also like to ask on what would be the qualifications as a host person of a traveler and the documents he need to submit in Poland for him to qualify as my sponsor? Thank you very much.
Can I use my insurance, Harvard Pilgrium Health Care, for the hospital birth in Sweden?
My organization paid good salary with health insurance, travel allowance, education allowance, Severance pay (Thai laws). But they don’t have 401K or retirement plan. Therefore, if I do not save money I will not have any saving.
Currently, I open to Thai bank account–Standard Charter Thai and Siam Commercial Bank. I used them on my daily activities–paying bills etc.
Can you please suggest financial plan? What kind of program I can enroll to save about 10-20% of income each month without me using them to buy "nice-to-have" staff lol?
I came home form work the last Thursday and Friday to a full answering machine with messages for a person named Julian Sweet (I don’t know who that is and his name is nowhere near my name). "Julian" apparently was online early Thursday and made MANY online requests for various services – home based businesses, auto/home/health insurance, travel packages, etc. and left my phone number in the request. We’re talking hundreds of requests. In the last three days I have had over 90 phone calls from different businesses seeking "Julian." Today I started receiving mail for "Julian". One of the items was for a new home owner’s insurance policy quote – and based upon the details in the proposal, this person knew my address, the year the home was built, a correct value, when the wiring was last checked… the whole nine yards.
Aside from being irritating and annoying, should I be worried about this? A friend of mine said that there are people who can with "one click" enter my information online and it is sent to hundreds of companies and it will look like I want their services. Is this true? And does anyone know how to make this stop, aside from changing my phone number and moving?
Thanks for your help…
I have lived at this address and had this phone number for ten years. I tried to think if there was anyone I had angered recently but I am drawing a blank. I don’t really have "enemies"… it’s crazy.
I don’t understand why people say public health care couldn’t work in the USA. They work in almost every other developed country and some are even considered superior.
I’m British who’s fiancée is an American currently working as a nurse in the USA. I am neither Republican nor Democrat and it really won’t affect me whether America has a public system or not I’ll still need travel insurance.
It really seems bizarre to me that a country that can put a man on the moon can’t or won’t take care of its citizens. What is stopping it happening? Is it purely the public objection, too powerful insurance companies or simply impossible to complete?
Jimmy J – As I noted in the question I have no intrest in whether USA has a Public system or not as it won’t effect me. My fiancee works as a nurse in the USA so I do have an Interest.
Ruiner – most of the leading and largest pharmaceutical and research companies are based in countries with public health care systems, ever heard of GlaxoSmithKline or AstraZeneca. Only 2 of the top 5 pharmaceutical companies are American and 3 of the top 8. I do like the fact that you choose Laser eye Surgery as an example since it was developed in Holland a country with a public health care system.
Sorry the idea of laser eye surgery was from Holland it was first performed in Germany and then Greece. Both of which have public health care systems
1. What is travel health insurance?
2. Do I have it automatically if I’m under Aetna??
3. If not, how do I get it?
I’m a US citizen, currently living in Japan on a religious activities visa. I’m going home to the US for Christmas for two weeks. In America I have no health insurance. Right now I’m covered under the national health insurance here in Japan, but that doesn’t cover me while I’m traveling abroad. What is the best thing to do about travel insurance?
All the travelers insurance sites I’ve visited ask for my country of residence, which is technically still the US. So, I can’t buy travelers insurance from the US to the US… can I? Or should I say that my country of residence is Japan?
Also, where is the best place to purchase travelers insurance from?
I do have some friends who probably know, and I’m going to ask them. But I thought I’d see what people have to say on here as well.
Thanks for your help!
While setting child support payment, Is the 20% of income figured from Gross or Net Income? Will the court take into consideration of Child health insurance premiums and travel expenses? Texas Law
Can they change the fundemental operation?
HEALTH BENEFITS ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
(a) Establishment-
(1) IN GENERAL- There is established a private-public advisory committee which shall be a panel of medical and other experts to be known as the Health Benefits Advisory Committee to recommend covered benefits and essential, enhanced, and premium plans.
(2) CHAIR- The Surgeon General shall be a member and the chair of the Health Benefits Advisory Committee.
(3) MEMBERSHIP- The Health Benefits Advisory Committee shall be composed of the following members, in addition to the Surgeon General:
(A) 9 members who are not Federal employees or officers and who are appointed by the President.
(B) 9 members who are not Federal employees or officers and who are appointed by the Comptroller General of the United States in a manner similar to the manner in which the Comptroller General appoints members to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission under section 1805(c) of the Social Security Act.
(C) Such even number of members (not to exceed 
who are Federal employees and officers, as the President may appoint.
Such initial appointments shall be made not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
(4) TERMS- Each member of the Health Benefits Advisory Committee shall serve a 3-year term on the Committee, except that the terms of the initial members shall be adjusted in order to provide for a staggered term of appointment for all such members.
(5) PARTICIPATION- The membership of the Health Benefits Advisory Committee shall at least reflect providers, consumer representatives, employers, labor, health insurance issuers, experts in health care financing and delivery, experts in racial and ethnic disparities, experts in care for those with disabilities, representatives of relevant governmental agencies. and at least one practicing physician or other health professional and an expert on children’s health and shall represent a balance among various sectors of the health care system so that no single sector unduly influences the recommendations of such Committee.
(b) Duties-
(1) RECOMMENDATIONS ON BENEFIT STANDARDS- The Health Benefits Advisory Committee shall recommend to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (in this subtitle referred to as the `Secretary’) benefit standards (as defined in paragraph (4)), and periodic updates to such standards. In developing such recommendations, the Committee shall take into account innovation in health care and consider how such standards could reduce health disparities.
(2) DEADLINE- The Health Benefits Advisory Committee shall recommend initial benefit standards to the Secretary not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act.
(3) PUBLIC INPUT- The Health Benefits Advisory Committee shall allow for public input as a part of developing recommendations under this subsection.
(4) BENEFIT STANDARDS DEFINED- In this subtitle, the term `benefit standards’ means standards respecting–
(A) the essential benefits package described in section 122, including categories of covered treatments, items and services within benefit classes, and cost-sharing; and
(B) the cost-sharing levels for enhanced plans and premium plans (as provided under section 203(c)) consistent with paragraph (5).
(5) LEVELS OF COST-SHARING FOR ENHANCED AND PREMIUM PLANS-
(A) ENHANCED PLAN- The level of cost-sharing for enhanced plans shall be designed so that such plans have benefits that are actuarially equivalent to approximately 85 percent of the actuarial value of the benefits provided under the reference benefits package described in section 122(c)(3)(B).
(B) PREMIUM PLAN- The level of cost-sharing for premium plans shall be designed so that such plans have benefits that are actuarially equivalent to approximately 95 percent of the actuarial value of the benefits provided under the reference benefits package described in section 122(c)(3)(B).
(c) Operations-
(1) PER DIEM PAY- Each member of the Health Benefits Advisory Committee shall receive travel expenses, including per diem in accordance with applicable provisions under subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 5, United States Code, and shall otherwise serve without additional pay.
(2) MEMBERS NOT TREATED AS FEDERAL EMPLOYEES- Members of the Health Benefits Advisory Committee shall not be considered employees of the Federal government solely by reason of any service on the Committee.
(3) APPLICATION OF FACA- The Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.), other than section 14, shall apply to the Health Benefits Advisory Committee.
(d) Publication- The Secretary shall provide for publication in the Federal Register and the posting on the Internet website of the Department of Health and Human Services of all recommendations made by the Health Benefits Advisory Committee under this section.
could you please anyone can tell me the answer.
am from india. i got the job offer from india the company will netherland base. they are sending to netherland. company will take care of my accomadation and travelling and health insurance. apart from that they are given for the 100 euros per week for that is food it is enough for me.
My main thing is 100 euros per week for only food it will enough for that.can anyone tell me the answer. please.
I have a bf in NZ who wants me to move out there. And although he makes it most of the time sounds like living in NZ is too good to be true, I want to know the real facts like your public health system. I have a very good health insurance here, everything I want and need is easily accesible, prices of everyday basic needs are reasonably affordable. I’m pretty much stable here with a home and vehicles I’ve worked for. MY bf has been here but keeps going back because simply he is home sick. I need advice pretty much from someone who can tell me what NZ is really like.
I work as a 1099, my expected income was k, I paid k federal and 00 state estimated tax. I pay my own health insurance out of pocket which cost me 00 and have another k in write offs for travel etc. What do you think I could expect to get in a tax refund?
I am married w/ 2 kids
I am a citizen of Russia (lived here all my life). I was visiting my brother on vacation last year in USA and had a seizure and small stroke so I had to stay in the hospital for a few days. They did a MRI, Cat scan and other things to see what’s going on. I am 60 and have a history of strokes, high blood pressure, diabetes so before I went on vacation, I purchased in Rusia health travel insurance for K. My hospital bill in Houston was K so I thought there will be no problem.
Last week ago, I received in Russia the hospital bill for K because insurance didn’t want to pay because of "preexisting condition". My question is what can happen to me? I am very, very worried. My salary here in Rusia is about K a year so it’s normal that I can’t pay K hospital bill. My brother in USA says nothing can happen but I am really worried. I can’t believe anybody will just leave me alone for this much money. Can you please help in any way; what can they do to me? Thank you so much!
Big insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars buying the favors, actions and votes of congressmen and Senators to see they get what they want. The Health Care bill will dramatically reduce the influence from these companies. The "Public Option" will give U.S citizens a fair and affordable opportunity to get reasonable insurance and better health care. If the insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies have their ability to influence and bride our national government leaders will they not shift their efforts to states that Opt Out of the public option? Will opting out not set the states up for graft, corruption and bribes of state law makers? Won’t the citizens of those states opting out suffer or will they be able to travel to other states where they can take benefit of the new Health Care regulations? It appears to me that the only benefit of states opting out of the public option would be to allow the states to negotiate with the insurance and pharmaceutical companies!