I’m a pastor of a church that also runs 2 schools. we had to change our health insurance this year because what we had just became too unaffordable. We have a disabled son and have paid more out of pocket expenses due to increasing deductibles than in previous years where our family needed similar levels of care.
The financial margin to keep the doors open at private schools like ours is already very slim, and every dollar that we are forced to spend on the increasing cost of healthcare we cannot offer as pay increases to our teachers – who are already paid well below the average public school teacher. Lack of financial and healthcare freedom may well contribute to an increased lack of educational freedom. We frankly just don’t know what we’ll do next year when rates increase again. Virtually none of our employees want to be in the government plans.
No one in my family is seeing the same general care doctor we saw last year. none of us are as happy with our doctor. It’s nearly impossible to know how much the Obama care legislation effected this – but it certainly didn’t help, and it seems very likely has made matters worse, and even more likely that it will make matters worse.
