"blake murphy" > wrote
> and my understanding is that it will be much more difficult if you decide
> to buy insurance again.
>
Since I will be 50 later this month, I am sure I will stay where I am and
consider myself lucky to have health insurance. But it costs $800 a month
and is going up. And for the ten years I've had it, I have gone in for
nothing but basic office visits and required exams only. Not even a single
procedure, xray, nothing. Just Advair prescriptions. (The insurance takes
them down from $300 a month to $30.) I guess I should consider myself paying
in now for what I will use later. Or could be I will be lucky and die from
my very first surgery at age 87 as a relative just did.