Health Insurance Premium went up 10%

[Alienwho]

Mine were increased 30%. Work covers my insurance cost, but if my wife was on our work plan it would have cost me $350/month. No kids and she's under 25 and healthy.

I dropped her from my work insurance and she signed up with humana for $30/month.

 

[PepePeru]

When I started getting insurance for myself, I was paying 86.00 a month for a pretty high deductible plan.

The day I turned 30, my premium went up to about 115.00 over night. Then I got another letter its going up to around 125.

 

[mmntech]

Thank god I live in Canada. I had to be rushed to the hospital twice last year and the total cost was $700 because I don't have health insurance to cover the ambulance cost.

I don't know about you but in Ontario, I have to pay a "premium" to the government for health care, which is $500-$900 annually. That's on top of the already steep income tax we pay. Personally, I would like some choice. The public hospitals aren't always that great.

 

[shadow9d9]

I don't know about you but in Ontario, I have to pay a "premium" to the government for health care, which is $500-$900 annually. That's on top of the already steep income tax we pay. Personally, I would like some choice. The public hospitals aren't always that great.

Steep tax? You pay about 15k per family in extra tax in Canada? That is the average cost per family here, NOT counting deductibles, copays, and what is not covered.