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Originally Posted by tjinaz
Really Lanny?
I pay 90 a month for a family of 4 on a PPO plan, granted my employer is unusual in that it is a 90/10 split but i have never paid over $330. We recently got bought out by a larger company with a 70/30 split and my monthy cost will go up to $270 but they are giving me a raise to cover the difference. Dental is another $70 or so but I have never reached near 1k.
When I worked for the state of AZ the benefits were comparible to what I have now. I figured your employer would have excellent benefits.
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Is your employer hiring??? I got a raise last year, and the increase in our helath "benefits" ate it all up and then some. That was just MY contribution! The benefits are good, but you get what you pay for. I could be on a 70/30 split as well, and probably pay about the same as you do, but I prefer to have that safety net and I'm willing to pay for it.
I'm not commenting about what I have to pay for as I see value there, I'm commenting about the Canadians thinking they are getting railed up there, and we roll around in cash at nights because we don't get taxed as hard. Taxation is just conducted in a completely different manner down here. We still get hit as hard, just in different ways.
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Originally Posted by RedHot25
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You mean that you can't just walk into a hospital in the United States and get that quadruple by-pass you've wanting? You mean having 10 times the population and the only twice as any hospitals is going to lead to even longer wait times???
One of our guys was having chest pains a few months back and experiencing numbness in his left side. We were pretty scared for him so we took him to one of the local hospitals, that just happens to specialize in heart procedures. Our guys sat there, in the waiting room for over four hours before he could get looked at. That was with a suspected heart attack at a cardiac care facility. He ended up getting admitted for over night observation. When all was said and done, it was a $11K overnight stay for what they suspect was indigestion. That was without an ambulance ride too.
It's been a real eye-opener down here. Yeah, there are advantages (the weather is great!) but the same problems that plague Canada exist down here, and they are amplified by at least a factor of 10 because of population. I love it down here, but there are a lot of things that I wish the United States would adopt from Canada, for the good of the country. We could both do a lot better if we took the best of each country and used that to our advantage.