other ways health insurance can screw you

for: my own personal validation, and anyone with kids going to college

saw it in: BusinessWeek (05.19.08 Issue)

what it is: article criticizing the so-called "coverage" that students are required to buy for college health insurance plans, and whether it's a deal or a sham

link: article

my comments: when i went to grad school, i had to buy insurance through the school. i had chickering/aetna (mentioned in the article) and found i was rather lucky to have decent coverage for relatively normal health problems, and that treatment could almost always be recieved in the school's very expansive health center. i was lucky because i didn't have a choice in any of those matters, and i knew that if something very serious were to happen, i'd probably be in very big trouble. now, reading this (and having recently left my soul-sucking insurance employer), I'm rather disgusted to hear how lucky I really was.