I pay 800 a month to participate in the high risk insurance pool. The pool pays 80% of my medical and 50% of my drugs. In that last year I've had over 200K in medical, of which I had to personally pay roughly 40K. My heart surgery last December was 126K, which was 25K out of pocket. I had one overnight hospital stay that cost 12K, or 2400 out of pocket to me. My drugs cost about 600 a month, I pay half of that. At the peak of my cancer treatments, I was paying over 3 grand a month in drug costs alone.
A 10% tax increase for me would be roughly 7500 dollars, so yeah, way cheaper than insurance, deductibles, and OOP. On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Awful, its legal robbery. > > I remember seeing an interesting comparison between the costs > associated with a single payer system and the current system. (I'll > have to try and dig it up again, this was during the original debate > on the ACA). And the choice was essentially, perhaps a 5 to 8 % in > taxes, and the $10,000 + current costs. Using our income as a rough > guide, even a 10% increase in my taxes would be substantially cheaper > than what we are now paying. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:358311 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
