whos fault is it that health care is changing?

[sotxbill]

Not to start a fight, or maybe to start a fight. Health care is going up. and I have to pay a portion of my health care and I'm mad as hell!!


Okay, now I feel better.

[jcd491]

All I can say is that if you are just now starting to pay for your health care, then you are very lucky. If I'm not mistaken, I started contributing to my health care in either 1998, or 1999. At that time it was a modest contribution, but before my 2 children got health care of their own, and my wifes' job started providing health care, my contributions were $430.00 plus, with a very large deductible and an enormous out of pocket contribution. All in all, I figured that if me or one of my family needed some serious medical care it would end up costing me out of pocket somewhere in the neighborhood of $17,000.00 before United Health care would pay 100% of the bill. That comes from $326.00 per month for 12 months, a deductible of $2200.00 plus the $11,000.00 out of pocket. Combine all of these costs and that is what an retired epr manager is saddled with if they have a single non medicare dependant. So, again if you are just starting to pay for your health care, you are indeed lucky, for now.

[sotxbill]

Me too. (epr2000) When SBC set the limit on max health care payouts, it was the first crack in the concrete(Was it 1986?). I started paying about the same time you did. I even priced out going to aarp and using their coverage, and its not much more that ours. A couple years before, my wife took a management job. It was cheaper to be on her plan till then. Gosh, why couldnt I have kept her pregnant and barefooted and craft??

Oops dear, just kidding..

Have you checked out the other companies to see what they are doing?

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