"And the do-nothing plan is a high-risk plan".
The high-risk plan dramatizes the symbiotic relationship between government and business in South Korea, with the public and private sectors traditionally working together, under strong central guidance, to ward off a crisis.
The cost to insure us privately as a group would have been nearly triple what we pay for the high-risk plan, and the insurance would have only been marginally better.
In Kansas, she said, the federal high-risk plan serves about 400 people, some of whom are quite ill.
If the health law is overturned, I may have no choice but to go back to paying about $9,000 a year for California's paltry high-risk plan.
Last January, I canceled my very expensive individual health insurance coverage through California's state-run high-risk plan and became insurance-free.
If Barack Obama goes through with his high-risk plan to visit Iraq [and Afghanistan], he may be confronted by US military commanders and Iraqi leaders questioning his 16-month timetable as naive and threatening to national security.
But for me, access to California's high-risk plan is expensive — the preferred-provider plan would cost me $748 a month this year, close to $9,000 a year — and the coverage is thin.
As a result of the 2010 federal health coverage overhaul, I now have another possibility: The federal high-risk plan would cost me just $265 a month ($3,180 a year) and offers unlimited annual and lifetime benefits.
In Wisconsin, she said, officials have already decided that residents who lose the federal coverage will be able to join the state high-risk plan and retain continuous coverage.
