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LWolf

(46,179 posts) Sun Mar 24, 2013, 08:14 PM Mar 2013

Should Health Insurance Premiums cost as much or more as one's mortgage or rent? [View all]

With deductibles and copays still needing to be paid?

Mine does. I am lower middle class, with an income that has gotten smaller the last 4 years in a row.

11 votes, 0 passes \| Time left: Unlimited
	Yes, it's okay that it costs more to buy health insurance, and more after that to use it, than it does to pay the rent or mortgage.
	0 (0%)
	No. "Affordable" does not mean "enough to rent another home."
	11 (100%)
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Should Health Insurance Premiums cost as much or more as one's mortgage or rent? [View all] LWolf Mar 2013 OP

by affordable they mean spend what you would have saved for retirement Skittles Mar 2013 #1

I am never going to be able to stop working. LWolf Mar 2013 #14

a lot of us have come to that conclusion, LWolf Skittles Mar 2013 #19

Human society LWolf Mar 2013 #21

Not just no, but HELL NO! Curmudgeoness Mar 2013 #2

I believe health insurance should cost Cirque du So-What Mar 2013 #3

In some enlightened nations, enlightenment Mar 2013 #4

15% of what they pay in taxes, or of income? LWolf Mar 2013 #10

I was thinking 15% of what is paid in taxes Cirque du So-What Mar 2013 #15

15% of what I paid in taxes LWolf Mar 2013 #16

It shouldn't cost an individual Sgent Mar 2013 #5

There's an immediate alternative to more "progressive taxation" and that is green for victory Mar 2013 #6

Deductibles and copays add insult to injury. LWolf Mar 2013 #11

My husband and I pay two and a half times more for our health insurance ... peace13 Mar 2013 #7

As a business model, yes. joeglow3 Mar 2013 #8

Health Care, like education, LWolf Mar 2013 #17

No, and it needn't... Ron Obvious Mar 2013 #9

It needn't, but it does. LWolf Mar 2013 #13

K&R Of course not. woo me with science Mar 2013 #12

kick woo me with science Mar 2013 #18

kick woo me with science Mar 2013 #20