# Health Insurance? **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [April 29, 2007, 8:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/health-insurance/28470 "2007-04-29T08:42:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![redrum](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/redrum/32/7398_2.png) [@redrum](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/redrum)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2007, 9:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/health-insurance/28470/6 "2007-04-29T09:17:00Z")
What provider does your employer use, and did your employer specify how much they were covering? For my health insurance through work (Independent Health), it works out to about $65/month, and dental (Guardian) is about $15/month, and that is my pretax out of paycheck expense. Work pays more than half of the cost, so even if I were to receive the same reduced ‘per person’ rate from these providers, it would be costing me over $200 a month for health and dental. I haven’t personally shopped for insurance outside of an employers plan, but most people whom I’ve talked to who didn’t get insurance through work (either for a lack of it being offered or any other reason) did not end up purchasing insurance on their own due to the cost. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/health-insurance/28470)._