My husband and I are self employed honey beekeepers. We fell on hard times with the disappearing bee syndrome and could no longer pay a third of our income on high deductible Blue Shield insurance. We had to drop it. Now we are 60 years old with a few common preexisting conditions. We have not even bothered to re-apply knowing we can’t afford commercial health insurance. Still, we could afford to pay a reasonable amount, and are delighted to see that California universal health care is gaining ground!!
Trish Sorenson
I have heard many reason to convert to the single payer system. When you consider that most agency’s are hiring in new employees with less coverage because they can’t afford to pay for the high cost of health insurance in a large pool. Individual coverage sure sounds foolish.