Just got great news in the mail today. Our health insurance, under the great Obama Health Care Debacle will be raised from a mere $854.00 A MONTH to over $960.00 a month. A mere raise of 12.5 %...............Wow is that the COL raise these days? Lee reached 60 this year and I'm only a couple years shy. We have run a successful business for 35 years, paid our bills on time, paid our taxes faithfully, raised two great kids, have an amazing granddaughter, built a beautiful new home, have a nice get-away in Florida and have NO mortgages.............except on our bodies. The next few months will be spent in figuring out how to protect what we have, cover unexpected health care crises and not deplete our retirement with outrageous insurance premiums.
There has to be an answer. We've been the route of a medical savings account, which worked so well that it was phased out. We've been placed in a group with other small businesses through the Chamber of Commerce, which worked so well it was phased out. We found a new carrier and had our premiums reduced to a workable figure.....just to be raised by BC/BS the very next year and now again this year. A nearly 25% raise in two years is unconscionable...I'm thinking a hospital policy may be the answer. We can afford the preventative costs but the inflated premiums are making us sick....Doesn't make sense to me but I guess Obama thinks it's perfectly acceptable. Maybe this November something will happen to make me feel a whole lot better!!!
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