Beware: NO Health Insurance for 90 Days

Good info, just been doing some reading about whats been going on. Trying to see if this is the correct path compared to my current position :confused::confused:

There's a game to play that can largely mitigate that where you sign up for catastrophic coverage for a month and then sign up for company COBRA (I think that's what it's called) in the final 60 days if you need it at any point.

It's been too long, but it works something like that and is what we did when we were in training.

I signed up for a high deductible private plan for 3 months to cover the gap. It was pretty reasonable but my wife had coverage through work and we didn’t have kids at the time so it was just me. It’s unfortunate that this is still an issue in this country and only appears to be going in the wrong direction now. Maybe one day we’ll join the rest of the industrialized world. Unfortunately until then you’re at the mercy of your employer and Spirit certainly isn’t ever going to do the right thing.

Yeah, nice looking out ALPA. Hope they addressed this in the new TA or get a tounge lashing for missing an opportunity to fix the issue.

The trick I played was carrying my previous airline coverage into the first 30 Days of Spirit employment followed by the 60 day grace period to signup for COBRA after the termination of our insurance.

Shouldn’t have to play tricks at a respectable Airline gig.

Smart. Nice trick. Wish I would have been smart enough to think of this hahaha. Next time... oh wait, there won’t be a next time because Spirit is the only airline that pulls this kind of sh$t.

People may not think first year pay, training pay, and new hire health care are voting issues but I certainly do. I don’t want to fly with misfits and would rather attract quality applicants

Perhaps you'd like to be taxed at over 55% of every dollar you make like the rest of the industrialized world. Free healthcare aint free, that money has to come from somewhere and it aint "Obama Stash".
Sweden 57%
Denmark 60%

There is middle ground, but both of you need see past yourselves and find it.

Our current system of bankrupting people to "live" is ridiculous for an industralized country.