re: #582 Obdicut

I don’t know their situation. I would recommend doing what my wife’s parents do and get catastrophic health coverage. Relatively cheap, and it covers the big things like cancer. Once you no longer have to cover kids, it makes sense. Pay out of pocket for sniffles, but get coverage for the big things for relatively cheap. As for what to do once they don’t have coverage, I’m not sure what options there are. That’s like asking me in the last minute of a basketball game when a team is down 20, what they should do to win, seems like it should have been done earlier on, but I take Cato at his word that this person is one of those rare situations where a hard working, good person, slips through the cracks on the system. I don’t know what the answer is, but I would guess if there wasn’t so much waste, fraud, gaming the system, the costs wouldn’t be nearly as high, and state systems like AHCCCS and medical wouldn’t have to drop people from their plans. If they had modest coverage and insisted on some copays and had checks in place, they’d probably be able to cover more people at least modestly.