Heh, I paid almost $1000/mo for COBRA coverage for six months last year. I think that the only plausible thing to do in that situation is to flee to Canada, or

Heh, I paid almost $1000/mo for COBRA coverage for six months last year. I think that the only plausible thing to do in that situation is to flee to Canada, or figure out how to consistently receive medical care without paying for it. Unless you're bringing in the cash hand over fist, it's just not a feasible proposition for an entrepreneurially-minded patriarch with multiple uninsurable family members to stay in the US. Your options are basically to totally ruin your credit constantly and eventually be banned from all nearby medical facilities or pay $15k+ each year for medicine. It's plausible (though not very likely with four kids) that there may be a couple of relatively quiet years medically, and then you can only hope that you don't end up paying more than $10k in bills that year. With every X-ray, mammogram, MRI, or other routine imaging procedure costing $500+, and a fifteen minute appointment costing $100-$200, it really adds up. For a multi-millionaire it's doable, but pretty difficult for anyone else.