HechoAmano: I'm gonna rant here, since obviously, that's what any logical person would do with this kinda stuff...but I'm not going the intended way. I agree with her. 4-5 years ago, I was paying $500 a month for a $10K deductible policy. Guy I work for was going to the VA for a couple years, but they told him he was making too much and even though a veteran, couldn't use the VA healthcare anymore. So, thankfully, for me, he went back to a company plan, and stuck me on it because I needed it and he needed me on there an an employee. I paid half, at the time, $200 a month, which is now over $300 a month. If he hadn't gone back to a company plan, I'm 100% certain I wouldn't have healthcare anymore anyway, since from what I have researched, it would be costing me $700 or more a month. At my age, and even making a good wage, I would rather enjoy the benefits of that money for my meager lifestyle, then gamble that I might get sick and die for the cost of $8500-$9500 a year. So, yea, we're gonna die, insurance companies are gonna keep wanting more money, and unless there's a major implosion, which I think there's a good chance of, in the medical industry, people like me are screwed. I'm pretty certain at some point in my future life, I will have no insurance.

HechoAmano: Wow, six years later and still insured. There's only two of us left on the company insurance policy, me and the owners wife. For the two of us, monthly, almost $2400, about $1100 or so of that is my premium, which thankfully the owner started paying all of premium a couple years or so ago. Up to that point, he had stopped making me pay for any yearly increases. So, I *should* be good till Medicare time.