Open Enrollment in Detroit Michigan
We wrote an Opinion on open enrollment, and how it upholds the bottom line for insurance companies, rather than protecting the health of every day Americans.
You see, if you miss the open enrollment period, you can be excluded from health insurance coverage for 12 months, which will reduce your ability to have access to healthcare resources.
Plus health insurance plan prices are often exorbitant, forcing folks to pay hefty deductibles before any "coverage" from the health insurance company kicks in.
Finally, it's a mistake to tie health insurance coverage to employment - as we've seen with this pandemic, millions of job losses lead to millions more uninsured, and this is horrible considering that the job losses are due to a pandemic that leaves folks vulnerable to high cost hospitalizations.
I have to give a big thank you to my co-author Geoffrey Ginter a 3rd year medical student at Wayne State University School of Medicine. Also a big thank you to the editorial staff at The Detroit News for featuring our opinion.