I have a heath care question. How much do you pay for coverage?

I get mine through a privately funded program through a hospital in my area. I pay nothing for it. It covers everything. The fund was established a long time ago by a wealthy and well known family in the area, one of the founding families of the area in fact. The same program continues today through other private donations and interest accrued on investments the original family made back in the day. Under the new bill passed in the U.S. this same program is now in jeopardy. It would not be considered "acceptable" health care coverage as will be mandated as of 2014 for every U.S. citizen and I will then have to go and seek coverage elsewhere that will likely NOT cover as much as the one I currently use does now. Things like THIS is why many of us are opposed to what has been done to the health care system in this country. What most of us are opposed to is the way they are going about "fixing" the system. 99% of us are all for revamping and reforming the system. I don't think I have ever talked to anyone who believed things were perfect the way they are or that didn't see the need to fix things. But, everything this government touches becomes a bloated, expensive, ineffective crippling bureaucracy that dwarfs the expensive, crippling ineffective bureaucracy of the health insurance companies. If we are going to have our government involved in our health care, we need to get them out of a lot of other things. Any system works well when it only has a few specific functions that it does efficiently. It's when you start adding all those other components to it that it begins to slow down, become less effective and dysfunctional.

Here in UK health care is free for all, the mark of a civilised country all the best urban

$300 for a family of five. Free for my son until he leaves school. The Healthy Families program in California is low cost insurance or FREE. No copayment, I paid $10 to have two kids, one with problems, so he stayed an extra two days in the hospital. I got that $10 back. My mom had a pre-existing condition and was able to get coverage. That's CA though. MediCal picked up her medical costs. Of course, we won't have MediCal anymore in four years. Or we shall see. Having said that, we do need Insurance overhaul but this gov bill has a lot of buried sub-bills. We now have Student Loans buried within the health care bill and our 1099's are also a part of it which gives the IRS free reign to spy on our finances just in case we don't want government health care.

hi bcrMike I am 83 on medicare and gap insurance Evercare through Secure Horizons. I pay nothing for my hmo and have a few copay, ambulance was free last year this year my copay is 150 dollars which in my situation here where almost all of my social security and SsI checks go to pay monthy rent and board it might as well be one thousand fifty. so I have to make small payments until its paid off. my copay for the twelve meds I take each day are one dollar and ten cents per prescription and for name brands it is five dollars per prescriptions. Ihave a very good gap insurance as its specially for elderly poor retirees. But we need Universal health care for allwho are not elderly and are not yet old enough for medicare.I have to go to the doctors and specialists they endorse but have found they were excellent doctors so I am okay for one 83 years old.