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Health Insurance Horror Stories

Thanks For Asking

Feelings & Co.

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.713.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

America has a healthcare problem. One of those problems is Health Insurance, which I have said before and will say again, loudly and with my whole entire chest, is a scam. I asked for your health insurance horror stories, and YOU DELIVERED. For full ad-free episodes, the full back catalog and a listener community, you can join us ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠. Want to be on the show? Call or text 612.568.4441 or book a call ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:03.0

Hi, I'm Nora McNerney, and this is thanks for asking the call-in- show about what matters to you. And you know what matters to everybody? Health care. Health care matters to everybody. And here in America, health insurance has to matter to everybody because it's hard to get the former without the ladder. And honestly, it's hard to get the former, even with the ladder sometimes. I am convinced, and it will be hard to convince

1:31.6

me otherwise, I'm convinced that health insurance, medical health insurance here in the United

1:36.8

States is a scam. In fact, I know to my bones that it is a scam. I'm going to lay out,

1:47.1

you know, an example that is relatively low stakes, just to illustrate this. For years, my family and I had a Blue Cross Blue Shield plan.

1:54.5

This was through the Writers Guild of America, which is a union that I'm a part of. It is amazing

1:59.7

insurance. But when you are on COBRA, when you don't

2:02.2

hit like, you know, the union minimum income level to like be on that really good insurance,

2:07.9

you get that really good insurance for a lot of money through COBRA. It was several thousand

2:12.7

dollars a month, but our premium was for a family of six, but it was really, really good insurance.

2:19.0

And, you know, some of those years we like really, really used it. And still we had the same

2:24.7

amount of headaches as like the average person, right? Like hospitalizations, mental health

2:30.1

care, we would be fighting, fighting to get things covered. But in one of those years where

2:36.2

it was definitely worth it to have this insurance, or it felt worth it to have this insurance,

2:41.6

oh my God, listen, I even put it that way. But even when it felt like this was good insurance,

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