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In reply to the discussion: Remember when I said the mandatory health insurance provision in the ACA was bad news? [View all]auburngrad82
(5,029 posts)then we switched to my wife's plan, which was a much better plan since she worked for a very large company as opposed to the small family owned business I work for. So from 2000- 2004 my premiums went from about $35 per month to about $82 per month.
Then I got married in 2005 and cancelled my insurance and went on my wife's plan.
When she lost her job at the beginning of this year we went back on my plan, where the individual monthly premium is $120. So, no, not six times the original rate, but around 3 times the original rate, which is what you would expect with than annual increase of 25%.
Of course, I'm paying a lot more than the individual rate now, because I'm carrying my wife, but to compare apples to apples, I'm using the individual rates.