04-08-2009, 08:41 AM
You are getting off cheap. Are you using the SBOA insurance plan? That one is a GOOD plan and DEEP discounted.
The plan for a couple / family here is over $3500 a month. And that's for a shitty coverage plan and high deductibles and copay's.
People are doing without if they can't afford it or their companies are not covering all or most of it for them. They go to walk in clinics and sometimes even the student doctor clinic where you pay on a sliding scale as per income at hospitals.
Having owned a business when I was married, we as employers had an additional expenditure for having health insurance options for our employees - it cost us something like 10K and upwards (depending on how many employees were on the plan) just to HAVE the policy. Then we also paid half their premiums on top of that.
I've been working with my congressman and state senator for years trying to reform insurance in this state but it's been shot down every time by the democrats and now I've no republican rep to get on my side with this. It's fallen by the wayside.
Yah, I tried the dems but they just won't listen. Our new rep for my area won't even entertain what I've had going all this time with the one that was replaced in this last election.
The plan for a couple / family here is over $3500 a month. And that's for a shitty coverage plan and high deductibles and copay's.
People are doing without if they can't afford it or their companies are not covering all or most of it for them. They go to walk in clinics and sometimes even the student doctor clinic where you pay on a sliding scale as per income at hospitals.
Having owned a business when I was married, we as employers had an additional expenditure for having health insurance options for our employees - it cost us something like 10K and upwards (depending on how many employees were on the plan) just to HAVE the policy. Then we also paid half their premiums on top of that.
I've been working with my congressman and state senator for years trying to reform insurance in this state but it's been shot down every time by the democrats and now I've no republican rep to get on my side with this. It's fallen by the wayside.
Yah, I tried the dems but they just won't listen. Our new rep for my area won't even entertain what I've had going all this time with the one that was replaced in this last election.