Some of it, but my wife's job includes full family insurance coverage under a group insurance plan and finding anything even marginally comparable to the massive coverage we enjoy would cost us well over twenty thousand dollars per year to upkeep on our own.
Yes, insurance without an employer contributing is expensive, some people don't have an employer option and people who can afford it have to pay it. Still don't believe anyone's existing insurance premiums and deductibles increased by 21,500 per year because of Obamacare.
Probably not.
I was talking about the market value of our insurance if we were not a part of a giant group of insurance buying individuals. We are very glad to have what we do have. Thank the gods that we do not have to buy our own insurance under the current system.
I have tried to and have had to buy my own insurance in the past. It was terribly expensive without an employer taking up half the cost or being a part of a huge buying group or having one hundred percent of the cost taken up by an e,ployer in the case of my wife's employer.
Those with dodgy jobs working their way out of poverty can not afford even the least bit of health care these days without some help.
Obamacare helps some people and ditching it is a mistake, but working out the flaws is a way toward the benefit of everyone who makes a median level salary.
DO not think for a second that I do not know what it is to provide for a family with only one income and living without the safety net of a health care plan. I have been there. Fortunately, those times are well behind us, but I can still understand what the people with less income are going through.