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    How much do you pay in health care?

    "The average cost of family health-care coverage more than doubled from 1999 to 2008, from $1,543 to $3,354, according to a report by the Institute on Medicine released Tuesday."
    http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/...are/index.html

    What is NYS doing? As a single healthy male my health insurance is $4,000! And a familly is over 10k! How can some states insure a familly of 4 for this??
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dougles View Post
    "The average cost of family health-care coverage more than doubled from 1999 to 2008, from $1,543 to $3,354, according to a report by the Institute on Medicine released Tuesday."
    http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/...are/index.html

    What is NYS doing? As a single healthy male my health insurance is $4,000! And a familly is over 10k! How can some states insure a familly of 4 for this??
    They probably do not have as many welfare recipients (that are also medicaid recipients) as New York State.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anotherview View Post
    They probably do not have as many welfare recipients (that are also medicaid recipients) as New York State.
    But how does that affect how much BC BS would charge me?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anotherview View Post
    They probably do not have as many welfare recipients (that are also medicaid recipients) as New York State.
    I'm sorry, I thought you were talking about state funded health insurance.

    Are you self-employed paying your own health insurance?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anotherview View Post
    I'm sorry, I thought you were talking about state funded health insurance.

    Are you self-employed paying your own health insurance?
    No my company pays 60% of it for me!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dougles View Post
    No my company pays 60% of it for me!
    Dougles: That's sounds really high. My husband and I pay $116.00 a month through his company and we have BC BS

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anotherview View Post
    Dougles: That's sounds really high. My husband and I pay $116.00 a month through his company and we have BC BS

    Yeah but how much does he company cover?
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    We pay $3,120/yr.

    On health side we pay 15%, company pays 85%

    On Dental side we pay 25%, company pays 75%

    We take the wife's health and my dental, just because it was a better deal that way. It varies, some years my company has a better deal, some years it's better through her. One thing they've been doing is raising co-pays to off-set the cost increases!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dougles View Post
    Yeah but how much does he company cover?
    You mean in terms of Drs fees, hospital visits, prescriptions or the % of the annual coverage?

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    Thank god I'll have that money to spend next year! Obama told me last night that I'm ENTITLED to health care!!!!

    I like being ENTITLED!

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    The article is only talking about the subscriber's share. The full report gives the average yearly premium for a family as $12,680 per year - the $3,354 is the amount not contributed by the employer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dave338 View Post
    The article is only talking about the subscriber's share. The full report gives the average yearly premium for a family as $12,680 per year - the $3,354 is the amount not contributed by the employer.
    I must have missed that part makes more sense now!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dougles View Post
    I must have missed that part makes more sense now!
    I work in the healthcare industry, so I went looking for the report - the $3,354 sounded way too low to me, too.

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    $4224 a year for univera for mine. The least expensive plan they got.

    Co pays on just about everything.

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    Healthcare costs me about $50.00 per week, or about $2600.00 per year. My company picks up the rest.
    **free is a trademark of the current U.S. government.

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