All the same, I am still glad I live in a state where the RWNJs are no where near the levers of power.
Hey Toshi, if that happens to you again, look into short term health insurance. It has always been dirt cheap and was not effected by the new health laws. It is good coverage, it just does not have nickel and dime coverage like copays. Most of them are standard 80% plans with low deductibles and a million coverage limit. Really cheap and you can buy it from 1 to 6 months at a time. That way you can drop the hammer in your prius on an exit ramp knowing you are protected! : )
My company sponsored insurance went up $35 per pay period (24 pays per year) over last year, It's high deductible, but good coverage for every day and emergency kind of stuff.
My employer claims that the individual employee pays 1/3 of the cost of his/her health plan with the airline picking up the other 2/3. If one believes this claim (of which I am, a skeptic) that means anyone with a family, on the PPO, has a health care plan that costs, in 2015, a total of $1344.90 a month (ish. this varies a little based on how pay periods fall, some months have 3 pay periods, I'm using a generic 2 pay period month for simplicity sake).
Medical Marijuana!
I can believe it.
Details on the plan: http://www.anthem.com/national/noapplication/f0/s0/t0/pw_e214588.pdf . Highlights are $250 individual/$750 family deductible, $6350/12700 individual/family out of pocket limit although I'm not sure how one would get even remotely close to that point. I fund a FSA at a $1000/year rate to cover the deductible + copays.
Medical Marijuana!
You should move to DC.
Your mortgage is less than $195 pre-tax per month? :derp:
Or to put it another way more than I've spent on healthcare in quarter of a century.........
I'll double your quarter century....I slid into 50 this year.
Don't get me started about their ridiculous ban on radar detectors...made for 5 expensive years of my life!
Ah, no. Never
That being said, in 15 years living here I have only gotten only 1 ticket. Now my short time in Ohio, I couldn't even think of the future while driving or I ended up with a ticket. Ohio cops also always acted like I had just waved a loaded gun at a group of grade schoolers. Had an Ohio State Trooper scream at me after being pulled over for doing 72 in a 65 on a 4 lane interstate half a mile away from the limit dropping from 70.Don't get me started about their ridiculous ban on radar detectors...made for 5 expensive years of my life!
I did not compare them in detail, my wife did. As a family we had 4 doctors appointments last year (for 4 people) and 2 of those were yearly check ups.
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