My wife just got notice her health insurance will rise 34%

[Bandit]

She has never had any major medical problems so has not racked up any huge bills the insuirance company (Blue Cross) had to pay, but she just entered a new age group. she will turn sixty in two weeks. She used to pay $480. a monty with fifteen hundred deductable and now they want her to pay $660. a month. She can get it back down into the $450 range if she choses a five thousand deductable. She feels she is being forced into dropping her insurance because it just rose beyond her ability to pay. Yeh America...USA..USA..USA..USA

[Kolesar]

1. $8000/year for five years until she qualifies for Medicare

$40000 gambit and if you don't take it and something "big" happens, you risk losing your house and your life savings.

[Stinky The Clown]

2. Welcome to my world

Add a heart attack into the mix.

I have health insurance. Pretty good, actually, for an HMO. I can go out of network at will and still get paid.

My annual premium is GREATER than the cost of my first house. The first digit of my annual premium is a "2".

[Mnemosyne]

6. And 'our' gov doesn't see that cost as criminal?!

So sorry Stinky, that our country lets us down and then suffocates us with the cost of simple basic survival.:hug:

It's hard to breathe sometimes...

[Captain Hilts]

3. It makes me long for the days on military and Canadian medical coverage. nt

[Blue Diadem]

4. This is why something has to be done about health care.

Health insurance is nothing but a money maker for the insurance industry. How many people can continue to afford to pay the high premiums plus their ridiculous deductibles?

[fumsm]

5. My mother has been fighting with Blue cross as well

They are now refusing to cover her prescriptions for arthritis saying it falls into some made up donut hole she just found out about. They want 3,200/mnth now. Of course, not able to buy in Canada. Bush saw to that.

These fuckers just continue to screw everyone. It's going to get worse, no doubt, and the heat on BO will be turned up significantly to back off.

Fucking repukes!!!! The destruction of the country continues.

[ProgressIn2008]

7. After a certain point, it's necessary to accept this is a larger issue than "repukes"

Though if blaming "repukes" makes you feel better and distracts from the real problems, by all means, have at.

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. K&R