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- From: ed@titipu.meta.com (Edward Reid)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.acm,misc.jobs.contract
- Subject: ACM downgrades Catastrophe Medical Insurance
- Message-ID: <01010064.cg0620@titipu.meta.com>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 21:00:51 GMT
- Reply-To: ed@titipu.meta.com (Edward Reid)
- Organization: Accuracy, Ltd.
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- I just received the latest mailing about the ACM's Catastrophe Major Medical
- Insurance plan. There are some major downgrades compared with the last time I
- checked. (I don't remember when I last checked, so the changes may not be
- completely new.) The changes make the plan much less useful to contractors.
- The changes:
-
- 1) Deductible is now $35,000.
- 2) Now available only if you have other medical insurance.
- 3) There is now a long list of conditions which can make you ineligible.
-
- The deductible was $25,000 recently, and was $15,000 when I obtained the plan
- eight years ago.
-
- The requirement for other insurance is new.
-
- The list of conditions which make one ineligible is
-
- heart disease, kidney disease, lung disease, internal cancer, any immune
- disorder, AIDS, ARC, diabetes, neurological disease, mental or nervous
- dysfunction, alcohol or drug dependency
-
- The changes cannot be blamed entirely on the ACM or the insurance
- administrators -- possibly not at all. The ACM insurance program is caught in
- the same web of problems which is engulfing all medical insurance, and they
- furthermore have been forced to change carriers at least twice in eight years
- to keep this plan alive. Nonetheless, these changes mean that a plan which was
- previously a useful cap-loss for the self-employed is now much less widely
- applicable.
-
- Edward Reid (8*}>
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- snail: PO Box 378/Greensboro FL 32330
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