According to the map, it more than doubled for us. Personally its hard to tell. We have the 2nd highest healthcare costs in the nation. SW Georgia. One hospital monopoly. My wife and I are in our late 50’s. I take no prescription medication. She takes a cholesteral lowering medicine. I’m a little overweight but I don’t even have a doctor. Our healthcare premiums were over $600 each/month. I got it lowered a little this year by raising deductible to $5k. Now its a $100 lower combined. The medical community has raped this area. Large employers have left and no new ones coming in. We will be the future Detroit due to our local hospital.
We’re trying to reduce environmental toxicity to reduce our need for healt insurance or health care. The good news is that the older you are, the more likely you are to live longer and healthy.
I confess that both of us have accepted that if one of us gets cancer, we’ll go completely natural (probably Gerson related) or die. Heart attack will probably certainly mean death.
But our take is that the Lord will take us when He’s good and ready. Health care was really cheap a couple of hundred years ago. Actually, for broken bones, etc. - the hazards of life - it still is.
Thing about going without health insurance is that a lot of people perceive it as riding in a roller coaster without fastening the seatbelt. In reality, it’s more like driving in a car with no seatbelt. It’s not as risky as people think.