Monday, November 24, 2008

Why I strongly dislike health insurance companies...

4 words: "separate maternity deductible, $20,000."

5 comments:

Mary and Jim said...

whaaat?

Elizabeth said...

So annoying. I finally found one that is reasonable - but most of the programs I was looking at had a normal deductible ($2,000-$3,000), but then under maternity care, they said, "Oh, well actually we want to have this separate from your normal deductible. Basically we think you should pay for this all totally out of pocket." Stupid and greedy is all I have to say.

Wesley said...

holy mother of moses!

Anonymous said...

what a crummy deal--does this mean that you owe $$ from Hazel's delivery now or is that for ins. companies that you are looking at for 2009? I hope it's the latter. Aunt Cheryl

Elizabeth said...

No - we were shopping for insurance for me and found one that doesn't have that - thank goodness. Quite a few of them do which is just ridiculous. My insurance through COBRA is actually really good - just need to find a new one soon (and maybe pay a little less than I am now).