10 years ago a Blue Cross plan was $112/month. Plenty affordable for everyone. Under OBamaCare, that plan is $380.
Is that $112 in 2004 $$, or 2014 $$?
Still, the premiums for even a Bronze plan that doesn’t cover squat outside of catastrophic illness or injury are totally unaffordable for an average family — by design.
That $112 B/C monthly plan was a bare-bones plan and high deductible (figure $5000 a year in those days). The problem is that the administration got into defining what was bare-bones and the new minimum of gov’t health plans. That one twist in the whole saga is what drove almost all plans to go beyond reason.
Once you hit $800 a month for a family, and $6000 a year on deductible....it’s beyond the normal middle-class family who makes $50,000 a year.
Given the price inflation in medical care over that period of time independent of Obamacare, that's about what I would expect. In addition, each of us in a higher age bracket now.