Another Interesting Data Point

Even though my office is close to home, I tend to eat lunch at the various restaurants around the area.  When I'm eating lunch by myself, I always have something to read - usually whatever nonfiction book I'm working on at the time.  At one restaurant I almost always get the same waitress, a pleasant woman a few years older than I am, who takes an interest in whatever I happen to be reading.  We've had some interesting, if abbreviated, discussions.

I hadn't been there for awhile, and they have a pretty good patty melt, so that's where I went today.  After taking my order and then serving me, she said - out of the blue - "At your job, were you able to keep your health insurance?"  When I said yes, she asked how big the company I worked for was.  It's about 100 people.

Turns out, her husband works for a much smaller company.  She and her husband had just received a letter informing them that they were losing their company-assisted health insurance and would be moving to the Obamacare pool.  The "Silver" plan that would be automatically replacing their previous insurance would cost them an extra $400 a month.

And has an $8,000 deductible.

They could, of course, decline this automatic option and go shopping for themselves.

If, of course, the web site every actually - you know - works.

"So much for being able to keep the plan we were happy with!" she said.  

UPDATE:  Here's another.