h wrote:

"Pete C." wrote in message
ster.com...

I am currently paying approximately 1.5% of my gross income as my direct
contribution to my health insurance costs, and have very good coverage.

If this claimed wonderful socialized health care materializes, can you
honestly tell me that I will not see either a substantial increase in my
costs to maintain the same quality of coverage, or experience a
substantial loss of coverage?

You are either very wealthy or you have very cheap premiums.

The later. I expect my income puts me solidly in the nebulas
"upper-middle-class" category, but I'm certainly not at all wealthy. No
yachts, private jets, summer homes, etc. here.

The cheapest I
could find was 35% of my gross income with a $3k deductible. Completely out
of my reach.

Well, since I work for a very large company, I expect that they get some
of the best group rates available, in addition to covering the largest
percentage of the costs. Regulation of the insurance companies to set a
maximum differential between individual rates and the best group rates
would fix this issue without resorting to socialized health care. I
expect my costs would go up some in this case, but probably still far
less than with the government running things.