Our Susan Brink, who regularly writes about health issues, took a few minutes to discuss with Angilee Shah the difficulties of obtaining health insurance while unemployed.
“It was very stressful finding insurance,” Brink told Sha, who writes for USC’s Reporting on Health, via email. “It’s crazy. It’s awful. For a few weeks, until we looked into Vermont’s [health insurance] program, I faced the prospect of being uninsured – or paying an arm and a leg for lousy insurance – after 30 years of writing about the problem of uninsured Americans.”
Why is Vermont the place to go?
“No one is uninsurable, the insurance plans actually cover health care, and the state has options for people who can’t afford it.”
What should freelancers do if they can’t move to Vermont?
“Think about postponing preventive health care until AFTER you have scored a health insurance policy, not while you’re looking. That last bit of advice runs counter to everything I’ve written about health care over 30 years.”
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