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Are Health Insurance Cooperatives a thing? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Today was the start of open enrollment at my company (US) for insurance and it has reminded me just how painful it is to think about what a scam health insurance is in my country.

I had heard that if you want something done right, do it yourself. So, to that end...

Health Insurance Cooperatives.

Is that a thing?

I live in the Pacific Northwest and I would think that if anywhere had such a thing it would be here (I'm biased, of course).

I'd love to hear people's thoughts and experiences on the subject.

Anything to avoid forking over my (or me employer's) money to the medical-industrial complex to make some assholes rich.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. There are religious ones. They have terrible reputations. Cost sharing ministries, or something.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, here's a Last Week Tonight about them

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'll watch this later, but woof. It's not looking good already 😂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I got around to watching this finally. OOF. No thank you ✋