I sat through two hours of meetings today about increasing insurance costs at my office. It’s pretty standard stuff. Premiums and deductibles went up. Coverage, luckily, stayed roughly the same.
We’re fortunate that our coverage remained both affordable and usable. My wife has had serious health issues and ensuring she isn’t going to die has a significant annual cost. If coverage had taken a serious hit, I would’ve had to find another job or move to a country with a more humane approach to healthcare.
We’re doing okay, but I see the scam for what it is. It makes me so angry. Health insurance is such a late-stage capitalist nightmare. The health and well-being of humans should never have been tied to for-profit business.
