Reply #2: Haven't lost a job (I'm self-employed)...

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but my retired husband has just been informed that his pension check is going to be reduced by an additional $500 a month starting in January for his health care premium. This is ridiculous -- we don't spend $500 a YEAR on health care. If I could be sure neither of us would get sick any time soon, I'd tell him to cancel the friggin' health care insurance completely. His take-home out of his pension check has now been reduced $800 from when he first retired 10 years ago. We're not even in our 60s yet -- by the time we get old, there probably won't be ANY pension check left -- and they'll probably have found a way to take our social security, too. Bah, humbug!