surly

What is a Gas Engineer?
Possibility of a job with PG&E?

scrubbedexpat099

Gas as in Natural Gas.

Those sort of jobs here are very hard to get.

I know an English guy here who is self employed. Think his Missus has a County job with health insurance.

California dreamer

Hello,
yes, I have a qualification for domestic gas work. Cookers, gas fires, water heaters, boilers ( furnaces in the US I think !! )
However, I realise that most work in CA will be HVAC. I have done it but don't have the qualification. I currently work in a hospital as a maintenance engineer.I do plumbing, joinery, electrics etc etc.
Do you think that that would be a better job to look for?

Poppy girl

I know that you need a license in CA to install anything that is domestic with gas and the fine for doing so without the license is nasty SO I hear, of course there are folk that do it.

This worth a read http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos193.htm

adjudicator89

Wow, expensive, I am with BlueCross-Blueshields cost me 122.00 dollars a month.

Poppy girl

Me to $144 a month it goes up as you get older. PPO 5000

wgabriel

Is there not the possibility in the near future that with your new Presidential administration that they are attempting to install a Goverment run healthcare? Similar I believe to either France, or Canada?

California dreamer

Thanks for the website. I've just read it and it looks useful.

Duncan Roberts

No, not really.

adjudicator89

Wow, expensive, I am with BlueCross-Blueshields cost me 122.00 dollars a month.

Giantaxe

There's certainly zero chance that the US will ever have government-provided healthcare services a la NHS. That simply isn't on the agenda. There is some chance that the US will move towards some kind of single-payer system whereby the government helps/provides insurance to those that cannot afford it.

My view is that there is more chance of progress in this area right now than there has been since I moved here. I always said it would take the bankruptcy of a major US company like GM for this country to releaize what a terrible idea - for both employers and employees - it is tieing healthcare to employment. Well, GM is in chapter 11. Of course, the vested interests and their lobbying $$$ are going to be out there screaming "socialism" from the rooftops, so I wouldn't exactly be banking on change happening...

Bob

self employed? or an employer paying on top?
When I was working and paying $65 a month, the employers share was just under $1500

Poppy girl

I am as you know an independent contactor and have the same plan as Milan I pay $144 as I said before, BUT get this!

I was in ER 2 weeks ago and just got the final bill online tonite, Milan start saving, I had 4 hrs there with food poisoning....deductions after using a prefered network provider.................... ready for this to get over the shock lol.....$3,771.00 FFS and $1400 is for MISC its unreal.

meauxna

Aww Pops, you should've called. I'll hold your hair back for MUCH less than that!
(hope you're recovered. if not can I have your truck?)

Duncan Roberts

That's pretty cheap for an ER visit.