Listen up Cowboys, YOU MUST BE PART OF A LARGE INSURANCE GROUP.
When I was a kid, my Dad's family and employees comprised our BS &BC group. A couple majors and rates trippled. Know thy group, and it would be better if there weren't a bunch of west coast flower shop owners in your group.
Iconsider health care my burden as a parent - PERIOD. If I have to work at Mickey's at night flipping burgers or giving 2fer a dollar blowjobs at the truckstop, I will provide health care for my family. This is a heavy burden, but I look at it like an opportunity to provide the best health care in the world for my kids, for a little more than $10 a day. F the cable, F the cell phone, F the stops at the coffee shop, F the pickup parade at the ropin. Honestly, food, shelter and health care are not what burns up finances.
About a year ago, Cal posted on this very forum, the survivability differences for many common ailments treated by Canada's socialised medicine and the US private enterprise medicine. The US rations with money, Canada rations with timely access - that's why their cancer treatment sucks.