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Health insurance and bummin
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i want to stay in a mountain town and ski but i have to go to college so i can keep my student status cuz i have to be covered under my parents health insurance...anybody run into this problem or know a way around it
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What are the minimum requirements you have to keep for "student status"? Seems like you could just enroll in a local community college and take night classes.
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minimum requirements for student status is full time student and under 23years of age.
you can apply for cobra and pay like 350 a month to be under your parents insurance.. or just get a job workin nights in the mtn town that will give you health ins.
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Definitely buy health insurance. 100 a month may seem like alot, but I blew my knee out, which cost maybe 12 grand between surgery and rehab. I had a deductible of about 2000, but if I did not have insurance I would have paid all of it out of pocket. Blue Cross and other companies have policies that can be purchased for maybe 100/150 a month, sometimes even less. These will have a deductible, but they will still cover you in the event of a blown knee. Hopefully you will never have to use it, the way I did, but I urge everyone on the website to be smart and get covered. Look at Boyd Easly, he had to get a pig ACL due to lack of insurance and he has not had a video part since. 100$ a month may seem like alot of money, but 10-15 grand in surgery and rehab is alot more.
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Move To Canada, and become a Canadian Citizen. Wait Don't Leech off us!
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Move To Canada, and become a Canadian Citizen. Wait one year on a waiting list to get your ACL surgery.
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Would you rather pay well over $40,000 for it?
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well maybe be not that much, but to get reconstructive surgey on your acl with no health care in the USA....
Im talking total cost, mri scans, doctors, surgery, rehab everything.
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40,000? Holy shit, I don't know what surgeon you are going to, but the average cost of ACL is around 10000. I just got my ACL /Miniscus surgery and it only cost me 1500 in deductible since I have insurance that I only pay 75 a month for. After this everything is completely free for the rest of the year. Don't get me wrong free health care would be nice but I don't have the patience to sit around on a waitlist for months to get something done.
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there are some really cheap health ins. programs out there (i'm guessing that you are under 30). You could probably find something that'll do the trick for like $75.00. Don't ever go to canada, period. Why do all rich people from canada come to the US for med service? becuase canada is socialist and stuck on stupid.
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some resorts offer it if you work there. mammoth offers it starting at $9.25 a week.
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