Health Insurance for Poker Pros

There is alot of truth to eLROY's post. I would add that the best health insurance you can have is;


Exercise daily, eat a good diet, get regular sleep and sex, little or no drink and drugs, don't sweat the small stuff and have a life outside of poker.

eLROY as much as I enjoy your skewed attitudes... I asked for a simple answer which I have yet to recieve.


Jamie

Just like when rent is fixed, maintenace drops.


Or some peopel prefer to own company cars, rather than their own, for tax purposes.


So anyway, I think it may have been Truman, who fixed wages during some war or other, causing employers to raise wages in the form of health benefits, which deadened the feedback loop between healthcare consumers and the actual costs.


eLROY

Blue Cross:


http://www.bcbs.com/


Google:


http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=health+insurance


eLROY

there were unions way before truman. but, no, i mean the theory that businesses pretty much owned workers and it was in the businesses best interest to keep them healthy. (of course this was way before advanced medicine, we're talking fixing mechanical things (broken bones, trauma, etc.)


also i know that germany had socialized medicine in the 1880's, and also that modern day corporations (i think) get their command and control structure from the prussian military model.


anyway, just about the origins of the coupling between two seemingly unrelated things (trading your personal time/work for stuff and health care (whole idea of insurance different topic) ).


by the way, originally only the wealthy even had doctors. as far as i know, medicine is the only area where some people feel that 'someone' owes them something that can easily exceed their (expected) lifetime worth (wages, everything).


brad

What happens when you get hit by a bus?


P.S. be careful crossing the street.

Some casinos have instituted a one dollar drop on some of the higher limit games. It goes into a fund and if you have a medical problem at the table they take care of it.


Remember to toke your dealers and doctors. If you are at the tables when someone goes to the hospital you get a free buffet.


Kind of like a bad heart-beat jackpot