Try $5,000 a year. And it's not health care, it's just robbery. When you wind up sick, then you discover they don't cover whatever it is you needed for treatment, then they take your house.
Unless your an illegal. Then your covered.
Just another screwing.
I pay around $475 a month for my insurance under a small group plan. This is the only quality plan I could afford and it took a lot of fenagiling to get into it. An HMO, the care you get depends on the doctor. Mine had diagnosed me as having heartburn issues for 2 years. Had stress tests, EKG's and finaly an esophageal scope done to see why I had chest pains from 'heartburn'. When the scope results came back clean I demanded that my GP send me to a heart doc. When I called that doc this past January he said meet me at the hospital NOW. Heart surgery the next day and a ten day hospital stay that would have cost me $385,000 if I hadn't had insurance. The Ins co. paid $68,000 because that's their negociated payout to the hospital.
Had I not been able to afford nearly $500/month for this insurance I'd have no home now, had I no home in the beginning I'd be absolutly ruined financialy. Had I not had insurance I likely would not have gotten treatment and wouldn't be here today
Time for this country to reform their health system where all Americans can afford to be protected no matter their income level, putting a price on whether a person lives or dies is shameful, disgraceful and not what America should be like.
