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I have noticed several people in my life seeming to vastly overestimate the cost of getting healthcare through the healthcare.gov exchanges. If you leave your job, you can just do that. It’s much cheaper than the COBRA price, which I think people are looking at. For many people, it shouldn’t be a huge problem to get insurance this way. (I would still prefer single-payer!)
I'm curious what prices you are seeing and considering no big deal; because I'm not sure if you're seeing different prices than I've seen, or just have a different threshold for what would be a huge problem for most people? I've seen like $600/month for an individual, and this is just kind of ok probably good enough insurance (with a non-trivial deductible). For a family, even more, $1800 or more a month. Again for n…
https://www.kff.org/report-section/ehbs-2022-section-1-cost-...
> The average annual premiums in 2022 are $7,911 for single coverage and $22,463 for family coverage.
People get shocked by COBRA pricing, but it’s literally just your existing plan’s cost plus a max of 2% for administration. The real cost of health insurance is hidden from almost all Americans.