Re: Health insurance for kids

2003-06-18 Thread Bryan Caplan
Jeffrey Rous wrote: When I was in grad school, my wife's health insurance policy through work allowed an employee to add a spouse for $1000 per year (I cannot remember the exact numbers, but these are close) or add a spouse and children for $2000 per year. And it didn't matter whether you had

Health insurance for kids

2003-06-17 Thread Jeffrey Rous
When I was in grad school, my wife's health insurance policy through work allowed an employee to add a spouse for $1000 per year (I cannot remember the exact numbers, but these are close) or add a spouse and children for $2000 per year. And it didn't matter whether you had 1 child or 10. Since

Re: Health insurance for kids

2003-06-17 Thread Fred Foldvary
Now I work for the state of Texas and my policy is set up similarly. Adding my wife costs $150 per month and adding any number of children costs $120 per month. And her policy at a law firm is also structured the same way. How can this be rational? -Jeffrey Rous Find out whether the

Re: Health insurance for kids

2003-06-17 Thread dlurker
, and thus possibly a lower chance of say, a fired law partner complaining to the media. Daniel L. Lurker - Original Message - From: Robin Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 5:05 pm Subject: Re: Health insurance for kids At 02:52 PM 6/17/2003 -0500, Jeffrey Rous wrote