Deborah Millar-Jervis and husband Robert Jervis were faced with a choice.
They could continue paying roughly $1,600 US a month for health insurance or leave the United States and move to Canada.
The staggering, and rising, cost of their insurance did not include doctors visits, dental care, prescriptions or the deductible amount they had to meet before accessing coverage.
So, four years ago, the couple packed up their home in Blaine, Wash., and moved four hours north to Penticton, B.C.
“We loved living there [in the U.S.], we had a great place,” Millar-Jervis said. “But we just decided that the cost of medical [insurance] in the United States was just prohibitive.”
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