The first warehouse job I had cost $2.00 a week for family coverage and this was a non-union job from 1984-1997.
Today, at a different company, I pay $29.73 a week for my wife and I. Kids would be extra per child. Probably will cancel after this year. My wife has coverage and both will go up so much it doesn’t pay to have both.
And I pay $75.00 a week for single coverage. The company only picks up $90.00 a month.
The neat little trick there is that you have to prove a life altering event in order to drop coverage. Once you have coverage, you have to keep it - been that way for a long time. I am double covered (for personal reasons it makes absolute sense for me). I tried to drop my coverage because I am covered under my wife’s plan and could not do so because of it - this was more than three years ago. I’m glad I was forced to keep it since I had two surgeries since then and several (about two dozen) other “invasive surgical procedures” that cost at least couple grand each. My co-pays would have amounted to at least 10K by now if I wasn’t double covered, which I never would’ve been able to afford. If I were to figure that in with other visit co-pays and costs, let alone migraine prescription med costs of about 140 dollars per month for a 3 day supply on top of that, I would be destitute.
It worked out in my favor, but I would much rather have been able to choose my destiny than be forced into it.
That’s been my experience - don’t know if yours will differ.