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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you won the "health lottery" consider yourself lucky. I have been stuck at the same job in the public sector for years because I have an excellent health insurance. With my academic credentials and skills I would have made probably 3 times what I am currently making if I were in the private sector. Sadly I suffer from ulcerative colitis and depends on extremely expensive drugs to function. I got offer jobs in the private sector twice over the past few years but each time once I found out about their insurance plan it was a bad deal.

It seems that people make a lot in the private sector, but then they don't have good health insurance. People should probably highlight their health insurance plans when they say they make $300k/year because for someone like me that $300k/year will come down a lot given my medical needs.

Do you have a high paying job and also a premier health insurance at the same time? If so, what kind of company/sector do you work in? My illness is hereditary so I want to make sure my Kids go towards that industry/sector God forbid they end up with Ulcerative colitis like me.[/quote]

Have both, and pay nothing for health insurance every month. [/quote]

I work in healthcare and have a CareFirst PPO. I paid about $120 total to have a baby. I don't know what the coverage of your particular drug would be. If you work in healthcare for a large organization, it gives you access to both a good healthcare plan plus broad network of "in network" providers. [/quote]

No, pp wrote about working as a provider at hospital and had only catastrophic insurance. Not every health system takes care of their employees. [/quote]

I would say the large ones do. [/quote]
They can provide insurance but it doesn’t mean it’s great. INOVA’s is terrible.[/quote]

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