Geoff,
I recently became self-employed.  My wife did all the insurance
research, so I don't know a lot of the details, but we made the
decision to go with a "catastrophic" type insurance rather than
something comparable to what I had with my former company.  The bottom
line is that we have a rather large deductible ($5,000), but our
premium (for a family of 4) is somewhere around $250/month.  Heck, if
you tuck that extra $500-$800 back each month, you can easily cover
the $5,000 deductible each year.
-- 
Kurtis Jones
Russellville, Arkansas
1963 TR4 - CT19389L
1959 AH Bugeye - AN5L23250
www.geocities.com/tr4_1963
On 1/5/07, Geoff Branch <gjbranch@comcast.net> wrote:
> Just got my new premium announcement from my health insurance co:   $1380 a
> month for a family of three.  That's $16,000 a year.  A 38% increase over last
> year.  I'm self employed.  My wife is self employed.
>
> Anyone else out there in this predicament??  Any suggestions??? Other than
> getting a job with the state??
>
> Geoff Branch
 
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