From: "John Oellrich" 

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Mark,

After soooo many years of just basically not worrying about health care =
costs this has been a real eye opener for me.

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john

oellrich{at}earthlink.net
  "Mark Hessey"  wrote in message =
news:3de43413$1{at}w3.nls.net...
  I took out a plan with AmeriHealth about 5 years ago or so. At the =
time it was $206/month with a $20 co-pay and the first $500 of a = hospital
stay. At some point I switched it to a $30 co-pay/$1000 for the = hospital
because of the rate increases. At that new level, this month it = went up
to $354/month and would be $438/month at my original co-pay.=20

  Fortunately :-), about a month after I signed on with them I had my =
gall bladder out at about a total of $16,000 ($520 out of pocket) so I'm =
still ahead of them, barely.
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Mark,
 
After soooo many years of just basically not worrying about health =
care=20
costs this has been a real eye opener for me.
-- john
 
oellrich{at}earthlink.net">mailto:oellrich{at}earthlink.net">oellrich{at}earthlink.net

  "Mark Hessey" <mark{at}hessey.com>">mailto:mark{at}hessey.com">mark{at}hessey.com>
wrote in =
message news:3de43413$1{at}w3.nls.net...
  I took out a plan with AmeriHealth =
about 5 years=20
  ago or so. At the time it was $206/month with a $20 co-pay and the =
first $500=20
  of a hospital stay. At some point I switched it to a $30 co-pay/$1000 =
for the=20
  hospital because of the rate increases. At that new level, this month =
it went=20
  up to $354/month and would be $438/month at my original co-pay.=20
  
   
  Fortunately :-), about a month after =
I signed on=20
  with them I had my gall bladder out at about a total of $16,000 ($520 =
out of=20
  pocket) so I'm still ahead of them,=20
barely.

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