Posted by Patient on October 15, 2003, at 15:44:34
In reply to Insurance issues with taking SSRI?, posted by Tallguy on October 14, 2003, at 20:18:15
Hi,
My husband and I are in the same situation. He's self-employed (hasn't been able to find an engineer job as they are going over seas), and I do not work outside the home, so we have individual health insurance. Our monthly premiums were about to go up to an outrageous amount equivalent to a mortgage payment, and we were refused other ind. insurance as I am taking a SSRI. We ended up increasing our deductible, which brought down our monthly payments. We are still working on the situation. He has one client that he does computer design work for. My husband humbly mentioned his insurance premiums skyrocketing to his client, and his client said that maybe there's a chance he can hire him as part time instead of contract, and get us on their group insurance plan. I'm ashamed to say that my problems with anxiety and depression have kept me from getting work outside the home-someplace like Wally World that has a great group coverage since they have so many employees.
In hindsight it's frustrating to think that when I first started on any behavioral medicine it was through my gynecologist-I complained of PMS symptoms. I thought her response would be to put me on birth control pills, or something, but she suggested Zoloft which I began to take. I never knew I had just caused a future problem for us concerning insurance.
You'll be interested in the following article:
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Insurance/Insureyourhealth/P41966.asp
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