[jbischke]

I'm pretty much done with the U.S. Health Care system. As Michael Moore's new movie is apt to point out we're spending almost a sixth of our GDP on health care and yet we're near #40 in the world in terms of quality. In the last year I've had insurance companies deny claims for me for the sole reason that I wanted a couple of tests taken that they deemed "preventative." We have a system where if you have horrible health habits and want to wait until something is really wrong we'll cover a lot but if you're healthy you'll get charged pretty much the same premiums and can't get a basic test to run to prevent problems down the road.

Anyway, I'm contemplating dropping out. In other words, dropping all coverage except for catastrophic (e.g., some sort of accident). I'm wondering what the best way to do this is. I'd love to hear from other people who were frustrated with U.S. health care but otherwise healthy and decided to shuck the system. I have a feeling more and more people will do this as we realize how incredibly bad the existing system has become.

OK, done with my rant. Would love to hear thoughts.