RNtn23

I have recently stopped traveling and am doing some per diem nursing in the San Francisco area. This is the first time I have been a position where I need to get my own health insurance. I'm young (early 20's) and healthy... How much should I be paying per month for temporary insurance (prefer to have Rx coverage, decent co-pay for MD visits..)??? Any advice would be helpful.

So anyways... my friend ended up working 3 days of the contract because AM said the facility said they would take her "as long as she could stay"... yet three days into the contract the manager sent her home saying they weren't aware of her temporary status. She called her recruiter and her recruiter had no idea of what was going on! AM has too many people involved which is a perfect set up for miscommunication, and it is their nurses who suffer for it.

My friend is currently experiencing a very unpleasant dispute with American Mobile. We are both relatively new to Travel nursing and aren't quite sure what is or isn't standard practice in this business. She recently started talking with American Mobile because she was about to finish her current assignment and wanted to stay in the same area but her current company did not have any jobs avaliable for her. American Mobile quickly got her an offer with a Kaiser facility.. called my friend and quickly went over the assignment basics (basically told her the name/area of the hospital and the pay rate) and then ask her if she was intersted... my friend said yes... and the recruiter told her that she had just made a "verbal contract." When asked what the "verbal contract" entailed, the recuriter just said that she had to say that in order for the hospital to go ahead and schedule her for orientation, however my friend had not signed the actual written contract yet. Later, due to a family issue (and hearing horrid things about American Mobile from other travelers) she decided not to sign the contract. The recruiter then said that my friend would have to pay cancellation fees that the hospital would charge them. She is still waiting to hear just how much these fee's will be.... Has anyone ever dealt with a situation like this, and should my friend have to pay these fees even though she never signed the contract?