I've had health insurance since I started working for 15 years.  I am going part time at my job in sept and I will lose my insurance.  I am scared to death.  anyone know where I could get some affordable insurance?

I have insurance for the last 12 years.  There was a time when I didnt have insurance.  My ex-husband got out of the military and they offered us insurance at a Corba rate.  HOLY COW! that was so expensive.  The rate was $750 a month for the family.  We tried to pay is very month but evently we just couldnt afford it, since I was the only one working and we needed to pay rent and eat.  But our son was really sick since birth and we needed insurance so I had to go to the state for insurance for our children.  That was not my finest moment.  But witout insurance his medical care was outrageous.  I then land a job that was paying great and had insurance.  I called the state and let them know that I no longer needed it.  The was a good day.  I hope that I never have to do that agian. 

I am covered by my husbands military  insurance, retired tricare. He pays $38/month for the two of us. We have free meds with it. I don't go see Drs but it is nice to know we have it when needed.

I have been without insurance when I worked this temp job from 1995 to 1999.  But there was a time when my son was 3 yrs old and he didnt have any insurance and when I finally did find him some it was so expensive I kept lapsing on it. Thank goodness he is very healthy and only had to go to the doctor for well baby check ups and for shots I took him to the local clinic for $10.

I grew up on state insurance because my mom was a single parent and her job did not allow her to be able to afford coverage for me and my brother.  While it was better then no insurance it was not a very good thing in retrospect.  It did allow us to get care when we needed it, however there were certain things it lacked on, such as using lower quality supplies (esp.dental).  While my children were growing up I also had state insurance for them.  I had a piece of mind that I could take them to a doctor anytime they needed one.  Now I have insurance through my work.... I am having a wake up call.  Now there are co-pays for everything and heaven forbid I should need a new pair of glasses or any tests run before the insurance company deems it necesary.........  If I drop down to part time I will lose my insurance all together unless I pay big bucks myself for it.  I also have Aflac coverage to help with any big costs should anything major go wrong and I am not able to work for an extended time.  I had a co=worker who this happened to and she lost nearly everything she owned just to get her health back.....   You know life sure is GOOD in this here place called USA.........

DaMomb_ being a single parent of 3 small kids, I too was on government aided health insurance while I attended nursing school. When I graduated and found my first job as a nurse, I was terrified that I wouldn't be able to afford the same kind of insurance for my kids.  I work part-time now  but get my insurance through my husband's employment. My oldest son presently does not have insurance. It's scarey!

Since I still live at home and still go to school, my dad's job insures me. He has Aetna and let me tell you it's like PREHISTORIC Health Insurance.  For a family of 4, he pays over $600 a month and the coverage is crap! To have 100% coverage you need to first meet a $10,000 deductible. This worked out real well last summer when I was in the hospital for almost 30 days with my DVT and PE. My parents had to put out $10,000 and then the rest of my medical bills were paid at 100%.  My total hospital bills were over $450,000.  Insane!

I hope that once I graduate and get employed, I'll get some good insurance of my own.

My dad is currently looking for a new job just because these benefits suck.  What a shame that this is happening in America....where foreigners and others get healthcare for FREE!

My insurance is expenses. I pay out of pocket.

I found Sicko to be a fantastic work. It should shake some people up.

cdnurse says ...

I found Sicko to be a fantastic work. It should shake some people up.

Yes this show does bring to light what we as nurses already are tooo very familiar with.  People who are not around the healthcare field everyday will probably have a hard time really believing it.  I should try to watch 911 again and look at in a different perspective.  talk to poeple in that field about it and see if what he is trying to bring to light really is true......  Sometimes the truth is just to shocking for poeple to accept......    another lesson to be learned.... right cdnurse.....

 I don't have health insurance. I have also suffered serious financial setbacks because of it. I hate insurance companies...still don't trust the gov't though. I trust the admited greed of an insurance company over the supposed altruism of the political elite any day. At least the insurance company is honest that they don't care about whats best for you.

I'm starting to get worried now I am going to be starting school in aug and will be going part time at work which means I lose my health insurance.  still looking for affordable insurance any ideas of where I would start looking?

I've always carried health care insurance....over the last 25 years since I was 18.  The best was military tri-care, I had a fall with a broken arm, and no deductable, and no co-pay.   The worst was an HMO in NC.  I paid $400 for the birth of my son, that was a precipitous unattended delivery, the hospital bill was $1600 and my insurance had an agreement with the hospital to pay $2500 per delivery, but through some loophole, I had to pay  25% of the bill...since that was my co-pay for hospitalization.  I even appealed it, and had to pay, so the hospital was paid almost $3000 for  a deliveryt that only cost $1600...I honestly don't even know how that is legal.  But I was told that my part of the HMO 'contract' made me responsible for 25% of the bill.  In one place in NC, my husband's employer wanted $220 a week for family health insurance...that's about $900 a month.  Needless to say we  did something else.  Now, that I'm employed by a large hospital, I have fairly resonable healthcare, at about $350 a month for the family, with decent deductables. 

I had a pt last  month that was in an accident.  She was a Canadian.  She was amazed at how much we pay in this country.  She said for elective procedures there is a wait.  But otherwise for emergency care, or ugent care the system works good.  She said that she was glad that she was a Canadian, and wouldn't want to be a U.S. Citizen.

My husband and I got married beginning of august, the end of august found out he got a blood clot behind his right knee. He had thought the pain was from a weight training  injury for 3 whole weeks prior untill he woke up one morning and was in so much pain he couldnt walk on it. Thank God we went to the ED and they knew what it was! Anyway he lost his job in November and was out of work until Feb. During this time we could not afford to get cobra to pick up his old insurance and my employer would not offer to put him on mine.  His doctor kept him on warfin and required him to come in for his blood tests every 2 weeks and then once a month. Of course we got bills. THis was such a hard time but things are better. I am very thankful that we now have insurance through my wonderful employer! Losing insurance is such a scary thing to go through. Until you really need to use you never know how important it is.

My husbands blood clot is finally gone after 12months. He is no longer on warfin. yay!

My sister-in-law doesn't have insurance with her practice since she is  a doc.  I think it is sad how doctors often times have to get HIGH price private insurance.  They should have an insurance out there especially for doctors