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Hi, This happened during what started out as a promising job interview. and I probably won't get the job because of my response, but I thought companies refusing to hire people who needed health insurance was a dead issue since healthcare reform...?
The job interviewer asked me if I needed health insurance. I replied that if I was hired, I would of course have to take the employer's insurance, as I am on a healthcare subsidy throught the marketplace, and would lose that if I got the job at the salary level they are offering and I am expecting. He told me that their insurance premiums are "very very very expensive", "almost 600.00 a month just for individual coverage and going up all the time". I replied that that sounded about right for any comprehensive insurance plan, as I had already researched the costs of plans on the marketplace if paid without subsidies and have seen plans that cost over 1k a month. I did not bother asking what the employer's contribution towards the premium was, as I just didn't want to go into this discussion anymore, and wanted to focus on the job itself and the possibility of employment.
However I am asking here for some feedback / thoughts as to where this guy was going with this. He sounded exactly like he was trying to discourage me from wanting to take advantage of their health insurance plan and really wanted to hire someone who didn't need healthcare insurance from their job, and as I stated in the beginning here, I thought that was no longer an issue?
Hi, This happened during what started out as a promising job interview. and I probably won't get the job because of my response, but I thought companies refusing to hire people who needed health insurance was a dead issue since healthcare reform...?
The job interviewer asked me if I needed health insurance. I replied that if I was hired, I would of course have to take the employer's insurance, as I am on a healthcare subsidy throught the marketplace, and would lose that if I got the job at the salary level they are offering and I am expecting. He told me that their insurance premiums are "very very very expensive", "almost 600.00 a month just for individual coverage and going up all the time". I replied that that sounded about right for any comprehensive insurance plan, as I had already researched the costs of plans on the marketplace if paid without subsidies and have seen plans that cost over 1k a month. I did not bother asking what the employer's contribution towards the premium was, as I just didn't want to go into this discussion anymore, and wanted to focus on the job itself and the possibility of employment.
However I am asking here for some feedback / thoughts as to where this guy was going with this. He sounded exactly like he was trying to discourage me from wanting to take advantage of their health insurance plan and really wanted to hire someone who didn't need healthcare insurance from their job, and as I stated in the beginning here, I thought that was no longer an issue?