Paying the Price: How Health Insurance Premiums Are Eating Up Middle-Class Incomes

What about those of us who have affordable plans through our employers? My costs have not risen for the last four years.

b) switch to a cheaper, crummier health plan, or c) drop employee insurance coverage all together.

I'm not worried about dying if I can't afford $0.45 for a letter to be picked up at my house and in less than a week delivered anywhere in the United States.

But if my employer decides to eliminate health insurance how many won't be able to afford the $13,000.00 a year now? (some expect it to nearly double over the next decade without reform).

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...googlenews_wsj

Re: Paying the Price: How Health Insurance Premiums Are Eating Up Middle-Class Income "What about those of us who have affordable plans through our employers? My costs have not risen for the last four years."

When you get ill and call your insurance company, and you get the message "you're not covered for that...pre-existing...experimental treatment" you keep holding on to your precious affordable employer plan that didn't increase it's cost in accordance with inflation.
After killing yourself working for years on end, and then decide to retire, that's when you'll see your plan skyrocket in cost. You won't then be able to afford it and they won't get stuck with another retiree and their future claims. Ahhhh the irony.

Insurance is a BUSINESS -they are in it to make $$$$.

Lest you forget
-every time yo buy a car, you are paying for the welders insurance.
-every time someone pays for health care, they are paying OUR insurance
-every time we pay our property taxes, we are paying City Halls insurance
We already have a perverse-twilight zone social-exclusive health care system,
lets make it a perverse-twilight zone socially-inclusive health care system.