We logged onto covered California. Got the rates for the different programs. I think the gold plan was around $2200 /mo for premiun Blue Sheild and $2400 Health Net PPOs with no deductible for a family of 5. We don’t qualify for anything back from the govt.
We also got onto ehealth and got information.
We did not sign up for it because we don’t need it right now. My husband had prostate cancer 2 years ago at 50 years old. He was laid off and then started working for a start up. We get insurance, but no Cobra. The start up isn’t going anywhere, so He’s thinking of going to do some contract work, but we’ll need to purchase insurance. He’s also looking for another regular job.
I will say it’s nice that we can actually get insurance, but it’s crazy expensive. We’re pretty well to do, and I can’t imagine other’s that are not as well off spending this much on health nsurance.
However, we are the poster children for being thankful we’ve had insurance. We keep on getting hit with health issues that are rare. Besides my husband’s cancer, my identical twin daughter almost died of a repiratory illness when they were 6 weeks old and 1 has a bran injury. One of the twins who is now 16 was diagnosed with a very rare movement disorder, dystonia. We are not sure what is going on with the dystonia. Right now, it just causes writers cramp and she can’t use her left hand. It could progress to other parts of her body. If it does progress, one option is deep brain stimulation.
My husbands cancer was also stage 3. So far he’s been cancer free since sugery, but it would be bad if the cancer comes back.
So we are a weird family, and it’s been great that we have had insurance.
Made dozens of attempts to login from west coast of Florida resulting in “We have a lot of visitors on this site now”.