Reply #49: and you can't buy health insurance coverage that will actually cover you [View All]

in my state health insurance for a woman of 50 is not to be had for a price you can pay, in other states, sure, they take your money, but since you are one person and have nobody behind you to back you up, when you do get seriously ill/injured they find a way to crawfish and you will not get any kind of serious reimbursement

didn't you see sicko?

self employment is a terrible road for anyone over 50 until we get a different/universal health care system

a better road is to marry someone who can get spousal health insurance (one of the reasons why gay marriage is so "hot" now when at one time the freedom NOT to be married was very important to gay and even non-money grubbing straight singles -- because at the end of the day, marriage is a financial/economic transaction) or if this is not an option, you pretty much have to take some job, any job

self employment is the road to bankruptcy if you're ever seriously ill/injured

i would never tell anyone i cared about to become self employed, it's a path i regret taking every single day, altho in my case i had no choice (like the OP i was a victim of discrimination)

if you have no choice, you have no choice, but it is certainly not a great life to get NO paid health insurance, NO paid vacations, fuck you don't even get christmas off paid if you're self employed -- you work ever fucking day or you go backward and lose money -- it fucking SUCKS