[travisbhartwell]

Because I am still on COBRA from my last employer, and because of pre-existing conditions, I am currently paying $7200 a year for my health insurance coverage. For me, it actually saves me money because of the constant medical care I need (I'm a kidney transplant recipient and just my medication and regular labs and doctor visits are expensive enough when I am healthy).

So this is not shocking at all to me. Actually, I am glad that I will be able to pay this one day. If I don't convert my current contract job to full-time employment with employer provided insurance by November, I will be out of luck. It will become literally life or death for me if I get sick.

[ck2]

Well most other rules don't go into effect until years from now so I hope you can find a solution. They may not be able to deny you coverage but there's also nothing stopping them from saying "sure we'll cover you, it will be $14k a year".

I just don't understand why during this insurance shuffle they didn't at least make it free annual checkups for everyone regardless of policy or not. It would save the nation a fortune in the end instead of emergency rooms.