[Noisebridge-discuss] Having an "unemployed employer" for insurance purposes

[Martin Bogomolni]

As an eBay Powerseller ... I can get insurance through eBay.   Sort of
the same thing.  Meg Whitman set it up a while ago, and it follows the
logic exactly.

$5 copay on most common drugs
$10 on generics
$30 on name brand
$50 on "specialized" (aka, cancer drugs and whatnot)

80/20 with either $1k, $2.5k or $5k max deductible per hospital stay,
$1M lifetime max

It's PPO, not HMO, but pretty darned good for just selling stuff on a website...

-Martin

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Christie Dudley <longobord at gmail.com> wrote:
> There are a number of groups that offer this as a side benefit.  Heck IEEE
> offers insurance.  At one point, I was looking into trying to do it under
> the auspices of Noisebridge.  I was waiting to see what would happen with
> the health care bill to really pursue that.
> That's an interesting point on the HMO-style insurance.  Most of these
> places just offer the old fashioned kind.  I could only speculate on why
> that is so.
> Christie
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> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Sai Emrys <noisebridge at saizai.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Brian Molnar <brian.molnar at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Isn't this kinda what the Freelancers Union does?
>>
>> Kinda. But AFAICT, they don't offer HMO-type insurance in CA (i.e.
>> copay-based rather than large-deductible-based).
>>
>> - Sai
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