[Alberta's Child]

If the author wants to reduce health care costs, he should have dropped his insurance coverage and paid cash for his care.

By his own calculation it looks like he would have saved about $100,000 over the years just by doing it this way.

[Kaslin]

You are probably correct. Rush doesn’t have health insurance (his choice) and pays the costs out of his own pocket.

[thirst4truth]

If the author wants to reduce health care costs, he should have dropped his insurance coverage and paid cash for his care.

You must not own real estate? If you own a home you have to have medical insurance. I am self employed and have to buy my own medical insurance, because I am not willing to take the risk of contracting cancer, it is in my family, to the tune of a $100,000 or $500,000 for treatment and loose my home to pay cash for that. So we got a major medical policy with a $7500 deductible. We have had it for over 20 years and it is not allowed by Obamacare. We were grandfathered in, thank you God!

Since Ocare was passed our premiums have rose over $200 a month, for a catastrophic policy, but it does not have to include maternity care, rehab care or mental care.