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My personal theory is that Java is a fraud perpetrated by Sun to stimulate hardware sales. "What? Too slow? Tends to eat up all of swap? You obviously need our new E20599000!"

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Friday June 25, 2004
12:24 AM

Health ins. for self-employed geeks

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I'm a self-employed geek living in the US.

Any advice as to how to go about getting health insurance? I'm thinking a
high-deductible "major medical" type plan, with infrequent routine stuff
out-of-pocket. I'm young and healthy, with no family to worry about.

The ACM and IEEE each have group deals with insurance companies. Anyone had
experiences with them, or with some similar deal?


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  • I was using something from Working Today [workingtoday.com] when I was contracting. It seemed expensive to me, but people tell me it's cheaper than most of the others.
  • If by some chance you live in Minnesota, and you can't get private insurance, you should check out Minnesota Comprehensive Health Association [mchamn.com]. It's a state-mandated nonprofit which provides health insurance to those who are turned down for private insurance. Their rates are about 10% higher than comparable private insurance, which isn't cheap, but it could be worse. Other states may have similar plans.
  • When I lived in Morgan Hill (South Silicon Valley), insurance was available through the Chamber of Commerce.

  • Unfortunately, there are no easy answers. There are lots of parameters to work out, besides the rates and coverage (which are complicated enough in themselves). Whether a high-deductible plan will work for you depends on how often you think you'll visit the doctor, what your tax bracket is, and whether your coverage includes your family.

    I opted for a fairly traditional HMO plan from Kaiser Permanente [kaiserpermanente.org] mainly because I'm familiar with them, so I know how to work the system; in particular, my children have a

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