I'm happy to report that this morning both my husband and I received our insurance cards for Czech public insurance. We are insured in our new country! This is great news for us! A couple days ago, my husband spoke with an HR person at his old company in the US. They said that given his over 30 years at the company, he would qualify for the grand benefit of being able to pay into their insurance coverage. They said it would cost about $650 per month for him and about $750 if I would also need to be insured. Who in the heck has this kind of money other than super rich people? And like before, that's BEFORE annual deductibles, NOT INCLUDING co-pays, and of course not including dental coverage and medication co-pays that are the average ridiculous price, if not generics. They can shove that insurance up...It's criminal! Instead, our new universal public health coverage (that every single Czech in the country has) costs only about $200 per month for the two of us, combined. Has zero annual deductibles, basically zero doctor co-pays, cheap hospital co-pays, allows pre-existing conditions, includes dental and vision coverage, and the medication co-pays are comparatively nothing or in some cases nothing. I'm only praising this so much because I am truly sad that my fellow Americans have to pay so much. It's wrong! Health coverage, in my view, is a right. And never ever ever should being sick break the bank! People shouldn't have to avoid getting medical help because of the costs, especially not in one of the so-called richest countries in the world. Wrong! This discrepancy is one of the bigger reasons my husband and I made the big move, despite loving the US.