God Bless freaking Obama Care! From: Sterling Jacobson Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 11:12 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Slightly, Cost of Living
I could literally buy two more houses on my cost of insurances alone. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Chris Fabien Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 11:05 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Slightly, Cost of Living Personally, I am afraid to add up what I spend on all our various insurance policies, business stuff and personal, because I am sure I'd have a heart attack... I think it's a large part of the strain. On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 12:57 PM, Sterling Jacobson <sterl...@avative.net> wrote: I'm guessing this information is like a lot of you out there. Except maybe my earnings because I am making about double median gross salary for my city. I'm not saying I work double, but I do fulfill many roles as the only salary employee of my startup ISP. I don't think I can replace myself for the same cost to the company, so I feel ok with that. I don't live extravagantly, but I do live comfortably. I have a 3100 sqr foot rambler I've lived in since 2001 with a house payment of around $1500 a month. But my biggest expense is health/insurance and medical. I now pay about $2100 a month for my family health insurance through IHC. I just signed up for a good Dental Gold plan at $100 a month for my family, but since it's not company I have to wait 6-12 months for a lot of the benefits :( The insurance deductibles are I think around $6000 a year and I have medications that eat up most of that. I just upped my life and disability insurance on myself and my wife to make sure things don't go bad if I die, that's around $550 a month. I think I spend about $1000 a month on eating, groceries and movies/date nights, at least that's what I came up to in December so that might be a bit off. I've got real estate I'm still trying to sell, but it's not the panica everyone says it is, lol! I just feel like finances don't go as far as they used to a few years ago. I'm not sparking a political debate, just wanted to see if everyone see things in a similar light? Or am I just doing the wrong things?
