I have insurance through my work. I think it's about $80 every paycheck (every 2 weeks, so about $160 per month). If I ever quit, try to be self-employed, or work for a company that doesn't offer insurance I'm in trouble. I tried to get insurance through private companies because the work insurance isn't that great...yeah none of them will insure me - because I have poly-cystic ovarian syndrome, which is fairly common (I've worked with 3 other people that have had the same thing), and for the past several years I haven't even had any symptoms. It's a pretty ridiculous thing to be turned down insurance for but I was by two different companies.

I went several months without insurance because I was dropped from my parents for being too old and I couldn't sign up for the work insurance until open enrollment. Luckily nothing happened to me during that time but I worried about it.