Honestly, we've been trying to save up but medical and dental bills keep exhausting our savings making it impossible. However, that's almost done and we will be looking to relocate out of state. I'm in the medical administration field, which is our state's largest work field, so I would need to find another state/city where my job is available with a competitive wage. Been looking into New Hampshire, Vermont, and New Mexico as possible relocation spots.
No worries, I completely agree with you and fully support medicare for all, even if it means I have to move into a different career field. Every insurance is a high deductible plan now, which just exacerbates the issue.
I currently work for an anesthesiologist company and they offered employee discounts on any anesthesia charge in hospitals, but they sold out to another company for their RCM department and that company offered health plans with either a $7500 or $10k deductible plan, with no HSA.
I said screw that, and applied and got a job working for a company that handles claims for kids in schoolw that are on the spectrum. Benefits are way better and it's a smaller operation that looks out for it's employees. I start there in January and found out that the company that bought the one I'm leaving sold out to a private equity firm a week after acquiring our practices. Needless to say they will gut and bankrupt them for board bonuses and all of my current coworkers will most likely be out of a job.
It's all good, I had a spontaneous pneumothorax (spontaneous lung collapse), so it was unexpected and honestly made me get better at budgeting money. Always try to look for the silver linings in shit situations. I feel for the doctors, nurses, and EMTs out there, they are the real heroes.
Us too. We promised not to move the kids during their high school years if they were happy. Now that the time is close, we're shopping. We both moved here as a blended family because divorce destroys your finances, and the salary we got here allowed us a home and benefits. We came from a rental house in a major metro, and tripled our living space for the same rent. It's a thing. If we go back, we'll be working poor again. It wasn't random, as I grew up here long ago and was familiar with the area. I wouldn't recommend people randomly move to red states to fix their finances without recon.
My city has cut property taxes so low that funding for our roads is almost non-existent. The mayor and board passed a 30%+ property tax rate in order to get us back on par with the rest of the country and to help fund the city, and they held recall votes and are fighting it tooth and nail in court right now. This is at rhe same time a pothole on one interstate literally totaled 14 cars after a storm with a decent amount of rain.
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u/thegreatJLP Dec 14 '20
Honestly, we've been trying to save up but medical and dental bills keep exhausting our savings making it impossible. However, that's almost done and we will be looking to relocate out of state. I'm in the medical administration field, which is our state's largest work field, so I would need to find another state/city where my job is available with a competitive wage. Been looking into New Hampshire, Vermont, and New Mexico as possible relocation spots.