I’m still in school, so I stay on my parent’s insurance! Thank goodness, I know I wouldn’t be able to afford it myself! I know far too many people who remain uninsured 🙁

FABULOUS night’s sleep you had!!

Drive safely!! 😀

I’m in grad school so I am so blessed to be on my parent’s plan still. I can’t imagine how people get by without it!

Just out of curiosity, did you find a helpful way to cope with the “exercise guilt”? I’m in grad school AND I work full time so sometimes my body just cannot seem to exercise after work and class… and the guilt really gets to me!! I’m really glad you brought the topic up and I’m not alone!! What did you find works best?

Have a safe trip home!

We are uninsured at the moment. My husband was laid off in November and his new job’s insurance wasn’t worth it. We’ve been lucky that the only doctor visit we had was a well baby that didn’t cost us much. We’re hoping that husband can find a better job within the next few months so we can get insurance again.

I do have health insurance. My employers pay a good chunk of it. I remember when I graduated from college with my BS and I was no longer eligible to stay on with my parents plan. It just wasn’t an option to NOT be on health insurance. It was out of my pocket then, a good chunk of money each month. I was so excited when I got a full time job that covered most of it! 🙂

luckily me and my boyfriend each have good insurance policies through our jobs. Unfortunately though having insurance is part of the reason I feel “stuck” at my job unable to do free lance type stuff. Hopefully that will change when I eventually get married and can go on my bf’s policy.

Safe Travel’s coming Home..

My 19 yr old daughter work’s, and is not a full time student..so she has no Health Insurance..I can’t afford to cover her, and she doesn’t make enough to do it..

I pay a 420.00 a month to cover myself and my 13 year old with health,dental and vision..and I work as a Nurse..this is through my Job..

It make’s me sick to think of her with No Health Insurance, but I can’t do anything about it..I just had charge another Credit card to take her to Urgent care, because she’s been sick and couldn’t get over it without a Doctor’s visit..the cost was horrible!!

I worry about this constantly..

The United States has got to find a solution to this problem..

Sandy

Nope, no insurance (but I’ll have it again when I enroll in grad school this summer). At my last job, I had to pay for my own, believe it or not — $400 a month for a fairly crappy HMO. Sadly, many of the “young invincibles” are college graduates working in professional but low-paying fields such as journalism, film, nonprofits, etc, whose employers are hiring them as full-time “freelancers” to avoid the cost of employee healthcare (and try affording private health insurance when you’re living on 35K in NYC.) Can you tell this is an issue that burns me up? 😉

It makes me sad that restaurant fruit is almost always melon. I don’t like melon!

As for health insurance, I was on my parents’ plan until I graduated college at 22. Then I almost immediately got a job working for a local government office which provided health insurance. Ever since then I’ve always worked a job that provided health insurance for a reasonable amount of money.

My husband has not been so lucky. He went many years without and there was even a point where we had to pay around $150/month for private insurance for him because, like you, it would have been too expensive to add him to my work plan.

I have insurance through my work. But every year I see the cost of it going way up – and I worry that they’ll either cut it, or ask me to pay for it(which I could not afford). The whole health insurance situation is bad. I mean, if you’re sick, you need care. It’s not a “want”, it’s an absolute NEED! I still dread getting sick though because even with insurance, I know the bills to me would still be high.

I have insurance through my husband’s work. Being self-employed I would not be able to afford it on my own. Sad but true. Health insurance is crazy expensive especially if you’re female and of child-bearing age (another rant for another time). Since my husband’s employer is in another state, we purchase private insurance and then get reimbursed. The amount we pay is seriously ridiculous and the fact that mine is so much more expensive than my husband’s makes my head explode.

Glad that you are having such a great time and the area looks amazing!

interesting..i have insurance through my work (for free) which is amazing but i live in mass. which requires every person by law to have health insurance..

I’ve had periods where I didn’t have insurance. A lot of times when I’ve started a new job, they’ve made new hires wait 3 months for health insurance to kick in. Sucks.

I lose my parents insurance in 2 months when I graduate from law school and the lack of a job currently makes me very nervous about what I am going to do about it. I have two prescriptions a month that I know will be expensive. It is just hard because I have to study for the Bar, take it in July, then not find out if I passed until Oct, which makes for a lot of time until I can actively search for a job in this economy. Es no bueno.

In Massachusetts we are required to have health insurance so I have it through work. When I go back to school in the fall, I’ll either be on the school plan or get it through the state. I’d never go without insurance. Things can happen in an instant whether you’re young or old. My health is one thing I’ll never risk.

I didn’t have insurance for 6 months right after i got off my university’s student health plans. I honestly could NOT afford to join a private plan, and my employer did not have insurance. Thank GOD nothing happened in the 6 months, because as soon as I got a job with great benefits, I started needing to go to the doctor! phew
It is scary to be uninsured for sure.

Health Insurance is required in my state. I am a grad student and am not longer covered under my parents insurance because I turned 23 in January. I waived the health insurance school plan for the year…so as of January, I was without health insurance and ILLEGAL! Haha. My parents thankfully extended my coverage for a few months until I can get on the school plan! 🙂

Have a safe trip!

I was on my parent’s insurance until last year, so now I have my own. It is required at my med school! Next year, as a resident, I’ll have insurance through my work. I don’t think I’d go without it.

we have excellent health insurance. we pay about
$3000 a year and the university my husband works for pays about 17,000

we just got a letter from the uni. telling us the total cost of employing him, with vacation, retirement, etc, etc it was an additional 30,000$

i have no idea what the answer is but something needs to be done about health care industry

I had a small cut in my hand that turned into $50,000+ worth of surgeries so hearing about people being uninsured makes me sooooo nervous! One little thing can cause people to get into major debt.

I’m graduating from college this year, but will be going for my Master’s immediately after and luckily my mother’s insurance policy offers coverage for full time students until age 23..so I’ve got 1.5 more years until I need to find a job that offers it 🙁

In Canada we have universal health care but its still so important to have coverage for dental, optical and a drug plan because those things can add up!

I pay SO much money just to have health insurance — $500/mo, not counting what I pay for dental. Iti s awful, but I could never go without. And my mom would never let me!

my work insurance is really awesome and i am very lucky to have it. granted i do live in canada where basically everyone has access to free coverage, but now i also get 80-90% of dental work, eye stuff, prescription drugs, etc that aren’t covered by the govt health care and it is great.
if i were not working, i would probably squeak by without extra insurance. my dentist has a cheaper price plan for uninsured and i’d take the risk of paying for prescriptions and other expenses as they came up.

pam – yay pittsburgh! while at pitt, i lived in the dorms, on bouquet street, on mckee street, and on atwood street. all in oakland 🙂

Ohh I went to Pitt too and lived in Oakland for a couple of years. Love your blog!

In my program, we have the Japanese National insurance plan. It covers 70% of everything for treatment of illness. Now, that means that normal pregnancy related check-ups and delivery aren’t covered; plastic surgery isn’t covered unless it’s reconstruction, etc.

I didn’t want to be stuck without insurance, because of my history of neurological problems. So, right after college, I took a crappy low-paying job because it had insurance benefits. I needed the benefits a few times, so the low pay ended up being worth it. A lot of my co-workers didn’t opt for the insurance, though…they said that it was just too expensive.

My friend just shattered her ankle here last weekend. She has to have surgery on Friday. It’s not so expensive here, because so much is covered. But, even insured, I couldn’t have afforded surgery after college. (I doubt she could have either).

Here’s to hoping that this horrible problem is solved soon! It’s ridiculous how many different kinds there are (some are really crooked), how many loopholes there are in coverage. Ack!