Great point! I join you now in 2013 pretty much... My family health insurance plan is now within a few dollars of my mortgage payment (which also includes home insurance and taxes too)... That’s crazy.
I was thinking of solving the problem Obama-style.
I’ll buy the really nice house I’ve wanted with all sorts of acreage, and on a creek and a pond. That way my mortgage will go way up as I’ll have to borrow so much.
But - my health insurance will go from being 104% of my mortgage to only 30% of my mortgage - look at all the money I will save!! (And I better do it NOW to take advantage of the really low mortgage rates so I can save even more!!)