Sorry to post the subject so loudly...but I just received my renewal rates and there up another 25% this year

I use United Health Care. My single premium rate is $360 month, up from $280 last year. My family rate is $960 mth, up from $750 mth. This is the least expensive plan with the highest co-pays and deductables also

I'm sure you have discussed this before, but I wanted some current input.

Any tips or suggestions would be helpful.

Thanx

shortcircuit

I'm up from $720.00 to $800.00
Mid-level plan, higher deductible & co-pays
I guess I shouldn't complain.

Running about the same as Redsy, we just keep passing it on, and bumped up our rates.

Up from $720.00 to $904.00.

You guys should live in Maine. One of the highest health insurances rates in the country with no competition at all. See if there is any association you can join that has a insurance benefits available. I joined the Maine Oil Dealers which offers insurance to its members, they in turn get a group rate. I pay 341 a month for just me(I,m 48). My wife gets it thru her work.

Cheapest bid I have recieved to date is $735.00/month for just me.

I am at 1250 per month, family plan Harvard Pilgram. Great plan covers everything but ouch.

My "free" retiree insurance is ~$700/mo

$1250 per month!

Makes our "free" National Health Service seem almost attractive.

I got a number of a group I can join to reduce my cost to under $900 per month same plan. Thats a savings of a car payment. I will post the info when I get everything for all to enjoy or benifit from.

You might try an MSA (or is it HSA).

Non-smokers with $10,000 deductable is dirt cheap.

I have major medical individual insurance that covers me & my two babies. They won’t cover my wife. I pay $300-$400 per month, but I have a $2500 deduct. on each person. The whole system makes me sick and I have so many opinions on all parties involved I don’t know where to start.

You’ve got the doctors, malpractice insurance, HMO & PPO groups, patient insurers, billing companies, patients, litigation lawyers…….. I’m sure the list goes on. That is a lot of complication and expense that ALL gets paid for out of the consumer’s pocket.

I think the thing that gets me the most is that rather than fix it, we just keep spreading the cost across more shoulders, asking more parties to shore up and support this infection of greed (“affluenza” I’ve heard it put). I just keep waiting for it to hit a critical point and collapse so maybe it can get rebuilt better. We just keep getting stretched with every increase. How much until we say enough? We keep paying more for less coverage. And when the burden becomes too heavy for the company to carry, it gets spread to the company and the employee. Now that critical point gets put off until it is too burdensome for both parties, and I dread they will bring the government in to keep it and continue to bleed us. I don’t know, but something doesn’t feel very capitalist or free market about this. Demand will always far exceed supply in that the price will never drop because people are unwilling to pay, and therefore competition won’t bring the price back in check. Can you ask someone to put a price on their health? Can you ask someone to put a price on their life?

I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but I don’t underestimate the greed of the human heart to covertly work together, silently and unspoken with others toward a common goal….. the best interest of themselves. I just hate to see it happen with our society’s most precious commodity, human life and health.