My Inusurance Just went up 9.1 percent.

[MaryH]

I now take home just about half of what I make. The rest goes to taxes, insurance and 401K.

If this gets much worse I will be better off not working at all - just get a sign and a street corner and beg.

[FloridaPat]

1. Don't laugh. Some of them make good money - $100 /day

and no taxes.

[itzamirakul]

6. But without health insurance and some

hospitals now refusing to accept charity cases, the poor will just die off leaving room for more immigrant labor that can be treated like slaves used to be treated.

[whistle]

9. tax-free dollars too...

[Spinzonner]

2. Apparently you haven't heard about the new Beggar Licenses

that Bush will be proposing.

Gotta make up those defecits somehow.

[marc_the_dem]

3. sorry to hear that

mine has been going up over the past years like crazy. I was paying $26/month in 02 and 05 I'm looking at $125....

My raises haven't made up the difference so I'm going without health insurance this year... I may just get a policy to cover catastrophic illness but that's it...

[idiosyncratic]

4. Here in San Diego, there are beggars at Fashion Valley

shopping center. There is no way they live near there (unless they hide out in the river valley). I think someone drops them off then takes a percentage of the hundreds of dollars they probably earn every day.


My rent went up almost 15 percent and my car insurance went up by by almost 20 percent. My car is older and I had no tickets or claims. :cry:

[Sub Atomic]

12. If you have no tickets and no claims

try out Wawanesa Insurance.

They are the absolute lowest price insurance company. I have never had to file a claim, but a co-worker who has said it was one of the easiest claims he's ever filed.

http://www.wawanesa.com

[itzamirakul]

5. Yeah, my daughter says that their insurance rate

nearly doubled coming the first of the new year.

[itzamirakul]

7. What about the insurance rates for the red state voters?

Think their insurance went up also? A lot of those people are out of work as well.

[LibertyLover]

8. Insurance

I just got my homeowner's insurance bill - it went up 16%. I had no claims. We just got a notice at the office that as of the 1st of the year we'll be paying $60 a month more for health insurance. The only thing that decreased by $100 a year was the car insurance, although why they preferred a 2004 Honda to a 1999 Subaru, I have no idea.

[4_TN_TITANS]

10. Grab your ankles and grit your teeth.....

we're in for another 4 more years of being fucked by corporate America. There won't be any costs going down as long as there's a profit tied to it. :grr:

[sandnsea]

11. My car insurance got cancelled

Somebody ran a stop sign and hit my daughter last year. This year somebody spun out on the freeway and hit her car head-on. I don't quite know how this equates to OUR insurance being cancelled. What the hell good is insurance if you're never supposed to use it? :shrug:

[ramapo]

13. Consider yourself lucky

A 9% increase isn't bad for health insurance.

The whole system is out-of-control but Americans like it that way. I submit that the health insurance debacle is the single biggest drain on employers and employees alike and is the primary reason that many people cannot seek new employment or try to start their own business.

[MaryH]

14. That doesn't include my homeowners insurance and my

property taxes - both real estate and personal. It also doesn't include all the sale's tax I pay. Most of what I make just sort of goes out the window.