Insurance is SO Expensive!

[Marilyn]

Originally Posted by highlans

We pay a national insurance a percentage of wages for our health care on hubby's wage it works out about 400 uk pounds per month. We have long waiting lists for hospital but so far we have never had problems with this. But more and more people are paying private.

Wow, 400 Brittish pounds per month is a lot. That's $782 US. That's $9,384 US per year!! And we are being told that you have low cost national healthcare. Do you pay anything at all when you go to the doctor or hospital?? We have lower annual premiums for our private insurance, but it pays about 60 to 80% of the bill and we pay the rest. Sometimes emergency care and some tests are covered at 100%. After our deductable of course.