THV Working For You At 6:30: The Duggars & Health Care :Liz Massey
By: Health Insurance
Submitted: 2009-09-25 15:25:20 | Word Count: 576
Every now and then we'll get a question into our newsroom from a THV viewer and we'll try and find the answer.
For example, last week a viewer wanted to know what to do if a funeral procession comes by and you're on a six lane highway. Another viewer had a question about a tax she was paying for in Faulkner County.
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THV Liz Massey found the answers for those viewers and in Tuesday night's THV Working For You, she did some more digging after a question came in about one of Arkansas' most famous families, the Duggars!
Jim Bob and Michelle live in northwest Arkansas and have a hit reality show on The Learning Channel, "18 Kids and Counting," which will probably change names again because they recently announced they're expecting their 19th child in March.
Well, with health care the hot topic these days, Margaret from Little Rock emailed in this question:
"I am interested in the Duggar family. I would like to know if they pay their own health insurance or are they using the ARKids First program? If they pay for it themselves do they just have a regular family plan? With the current health care bill debate going on i think everyone would find it interesting how they deal with providing health care for so many kids."
The Duggars have a website and one night Liz found Jim Bob's email address and asked him your question and the very next day he emailed back with this reply.
"We have never been on any kind of government assistance or ARKids. We have private health insurance with Arkansas Blue Cross that covers our whole family with a $2,500 deductible. We have had it for many years and the premium is about $475 per month. Because of the high deductible, we have paid in far more than we have received in claims. But we maintain it in case one of us has a major illness or medical problem. Thankfully our family has been very healthy. I am not for the new government health care proposal, nor do I think our country can afford it."
If you have any questions about the Duggar family, they have a new book out called "The Duggars -- 20 And Counting."
Jim Bob says it's been on the New York Times best seller four times now.
You'll get a close look inside the supersize family. You'll also get answers to questions like, why they have so many children, how do they provide for their family financially and why all of their children have names that begin with the letter J?"
The book even has their money saving ideas for example homemade laundry soap. The family also has their own website and there is a section with their most frequently asked questions.
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