Ask HN: How can anyone afford $42K/year for health insurance?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15879262

by minton • 9 years ago

1 4 9 years ago

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I'm a software developer in my early thirties. I do a lot of free lance and my employee doesn't provide health insurance. For good coverage post-Obamacare, I'm looking at $42K per year.

https://i.imgur.com/d8IezmJ.png

How does anyone afford health insurance?

aurizon• 9 years ago

This is evidence of the crime the USA commits against it's people to give $$ to Big Medicine (The AMA), Big Pharma, Big Hospo, and big insuro. These people have made the US death rate curve down, for poor or Afro-Americans or Mex-Americans. Cuba has better health care than the upper 15% of US people. Nothing is worse than Cuba being higher than the USA on this chart. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...

libx• 9 years ago

Buy an insurance in another country. If you have a big health problem (meaning many $$$), go there, make some tourism, get treated, and everything will be cheaper than what you would pay in the US.

Better yet, find the way to not have any disease. Physical diseases are the last consequence of energy imbalances in your being, be them emotional or spiritual.

microwavecamera• 9 years ago

[facepalm]

FlyingSideKick• 9 years ago

My good friend also is paying $44k a year for himself and a family of 4. This situation is truly a damper for those whom want to start a business.

Ask HN: How can anyone afford $42K/year for health insurance?

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