I already had a job, which of course makes the job hunt easier. It took me six months from when I first started looking, and two months from when I started taking chances on looking - such as making calls to places that might have made it back to my current boss.
It’s who you know, unfortunately. I’m not the “join professional organizations for the express purpose of kissing ass and making friends”, but maybe that’s what you need to do. I got my new job (completely superior to the old, so far) because I knew a guy who buys from a guy who had a boss that was looking to expand his department.
It wasn’t advertised, and I never would have even though about asking the company I ended up with.
As someone who hates people, I think it sucks that is what it takes, but if that’s what it takes…?
You resisters don’t have enough group mentality to organize and give someone the authority to tell you which commie to shoot. You’ll turn on each other before you even get outside the compound. I find this amusing.
Yes, I am well aware that ass kissing is what it takes these days. Unfortunately, my network of professional peers ALSO all lost their jobs within six months of when I did, as did most of my former supervisors and managers.
I am well aware of the job hunting technique you mentioned (the friend-of-a-friend or FOAF) the problem is my entire network is also hunting for work.
What I am doing this week is all because the person who hired me heard about me from my husband’s friend who hired me. I am doing the best I can, the problem is that the job market sucks unbelievably right now.
Just out of interest, so I can understand the US system:
I am a 35 year old Type 1 diabetic. I found out at the age of 19. As I expect you all know, Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease, it has no factors involved like obesity. In fact, I was extremely healthy up to a few months before diagnosis. There is no way I could possibly be held to blame for my illness.
I am well educated, with a BSc in Pure Mathematics and an MSc in Software Engineering. I like to work. I had exactly one week between finishing my education in 1997 and starting work.
An unfortunate problem with Type 1 diabetes is the need for regular insulin injections. Without these I will die. Not “have a crap life” or “be a bit unhappy”. I will die.
If I was to get a job in the US and move there, a “proper job” if one wishes to use those sort of terms, what would be my options for healthcare/health insurance? Could I be covered for non-diabetes related things? Could I be covered for diabetes related things? What sort of costs would I be looking at?
I welcome responses from people of all political persuasions. I’m genuinely interested.
Your behaviour and stated beliefs in this thread fit the Orange Curtain stereotype to a T. I worked there for a decade, and worked with people like you every day.
Got any cites? No, I didn’t think so, so this sort of bullshit will be given the consideration it deserves-- none.
That is not what this thread is about. We had an 8 billion page trainwreck about this already and no sane person wants to go there with you again. You were asked a direct question: what do you propose we should do differently for children who need medical care but whose parents are not insured? Please be as specific as possible. Try to keep your argument fact-based, not solely based on anecdotes that we’ll have to take your word for. Debate doesn’t work like that. Of course, I’m not holding my breath.
100 families? Wow, you couldn’t be more wrong about that. Warning: pdf. According to a study from the American Journal of Medicine, 62% of bankruptcy were medical; 92% had debts over $5000 or 10% of pretax income. Before you accuse them of being shiftless losers, the study also says that most of these debtors were well-educated, middle class, and had to mortgage their homes due to illness. Does this sound like a system that is working to you?
You say that like it’s a bad thing-- all people in this country SHOULD have the same coverage no matter what their financial situation is. Yes, I think that’s true. Just like I think no one in this country should have to go hungry, or go without clean drinking water. People who don’t think this hold views that I consider to be inhumane.
Explain to whom? To you? To Crafter_Man and Carol Stream and leander? Fuck no. There is a system in place to figure out who qualifies for help with medical bills. It seems to work fine for Medicaid here, and works very well in countries like Denmark and Switzerland on a national scale. Those countries are very successful in providing for their citizens and are not “socialist hellholes” ala Crafter_Man’s Boschian nightmares. It could work here too, if people weren’t so obsessed with someone else getting something for free that they don’t care about the health and welfare of other Americans. You cling to deliberately distorted views of people who struggle with obtaining health insurance or with paying medical bills, in spite of ample cites and facts provided to you. You don’t WANT to admit that you’re wrong, but you are. You all sound like a bunch of toddlers: “MINE!”
My big debt from health care was in the form of credit cards. There wasn’t really any other way for me to go into such debt (tens of thousands of dollars).
As you are a skilled professional you could probably find a job that has health insurance pretty easily. Though some insurance tries to weasel around pre-existing conditions.
The funniest thing about Curlcoat is her selective libertarian approach. She thinks she deserves to be cared for for the rest of her life now that she is unable to work. In otherwords we should have socialized medicine for her but for nobody else.
You should probably start a separate thread for this, but I’ll say that based on the sort of jobs that fit your qualifications, you’d certainly have employer-provided health insurance.
In general, group plans like those will cover pre-existing conditions, including diabetes, to a point. You might have to get a personal supplemental policy depending on your coverage limits.
You’d have to pay a “co-payment” even for covered drugs and services - for example, every time you pick up a month’s supply of insulin, you’d pay a fixed amount (probably $10) and your insurer would pick up the rest of the tab. For each visit to a doctor, you’d pay a similar amount, and the insurer would pay the rest, and so on.
Your employer’s health care plan could opt not to cover you for 12 months, depending on your state, due to your pre-existing condition. Then, you would have to pay out of pocket for all your diabetes-related expenses. There are a lot of variables relating to what kind of coverage you could be offered by your employer health care plan. If you were not able to get a job right away, or got a job that did not have a group plan, you could very well find that you can’t buy insurance because of your diabetes. A lot depends on which state you live in.
Just to expand on it. If you’re laid off you can continue your coverage (by paying the full amount your employer paid) for three months. After that you need to get a new job or get private insurance.
If you can’t find a new job that gives insurance you’ll need to get private coverage and it might be impossible. If you can get it, it’ll be expensive and have very high deductibles.
Perhaps we can get an insurance agent to give you numbers, but I’m an asthmatic and when I was looking for private insurance before I started my business it was crazy how much even a bad policy cost.