Good grief what is your insurance anyway at 20,000/yr?
The cost of mine is about 10,000/yr family and that is with a union involved. Any out of pocket gets run through a 125 plan so it is pre-tax. You can run over the counter meds through the 125 like vitamins, aspirin, etc.
Apparently a fictional one. :-)
I was wrong about my health care. My bad. I just checked my official company report of my benefits worth, and it looks like my health care is in the $10k range as well, with me paying about $2500 of it.
My HMO costs me around $30 a week. However, there IS a health plan offered that costs over $100 a week, although I can't figure what extra it pays for (I think it's for employees who don't have an HMO in their area, and exists to remind us how much money we save by having the restrictions and limitations of the HMO).
SO I guess Bush's plan won't effect me. I'm not sure what you would add to my health plan to make it better -- I even have a HSA available so I could get my co-pays in pre-tax form if I wanted, and still be less then $15,000 a year.
I have coverage for just about everything, including mental health, eye care, and even half off my kids braces.
I have to assume though that there are people getting over $15,000 a year for health insurance, or it would make no sense to propose this change.
I can only speculate, but it must be for plans that pay for a lot more regular things, or have little or no co-pays, or something, or else a lot of people's companies just aren't doing as good a job managing health care costs as my company.