For thrifty consumers, there’s a lot to like in high-deductible health insurance. The plans offer low monthly premiums and those fees fully cover preventive care, including annual physicals, vaccinations, mammograms and colonoscopies, with no co-payments.
The downside is that plan participants must pay the insurers’ negotiated rate for sick visits, medicines, surgeries and other treatments up to a minimum deductible of $1,500 for individuals and $3,000 for families. Sometimes deductibles are much higher.
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I went for a high deductible plan this year. Unfortunately, that made the monthly cost of a single medication more expensive than my entire premium the year before. Huge mistake, since they don’t cover prescriptions AT ALL until deductible has been hit.