Wow...health insurance

[bighughdiehl]

My health insurance premium through work is doubling! 60 a paycheck to 110, and I'm in good health, good forbid if something should actually happen! I have to get cancer for this to be worthwhile, lol! We got reform, my ass! Now I'll be closer to living on the edge finacially than I have generally been. Thanks a bunch , Blue Cross!
Who else is putting up with such a thing this year?

[auntAgonist]

1. That happened to me last year.

199.98 for single plus one. That's EVERY paycheck. I'm paid every two weeks. 5198.48 a year.

The new owners of our company are absorbing more of this next years cost. My insurance will be raised to 206.00 every pay or 5356.00 per year.

It's still outrageous. Our deductible is 500.00 per person and out of pocket is 2500.00 per person.


gotta have it.

[bighughdiehl]

2. Wow.

I think I have about the same deductibles as you, it is just way too much. I would have jumped on
the public option if it had been there.

[blue_roses_lib]

3. The buzz around my office

Is that our insurance plan is considered a "cadillac" plan (I'll confess to needing to research this term), and we'll have to start paying taxes on the value of it. I told my coworkers I want to see a memo from payroll stating this as fact before I believe it. We did get letters from Blue Cross asking for SSNs for any dependents.

If i do pay taxes I'll be pissed. My income puts me smack in the middle class, disappearing as it is. That's not the change I voted for, or the campaign I contributed to.