She was paying $479 a month for her ACA health insurance. Next year she will be paying *$2,800* a month for the same plan. And it's all because Republicans decided to end ACA subsidies. Expect to hear stories like this all across the country very soon. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Good thing she’ll be 65 in less than 2 years and will get Medicare. For a song.
It's pity Chuck @schumer.senate.gov doesn't care. He has much better coverage. 👍
Respectfully, if the first person you’re blaming in this situation is Chuck Schumer and not Donald Trump or Mike Johnson or John Thune, then your understandable anger is a bit misdirected.
Well, I'm nobody to blame Chuck. Trump is a mafioso, answerable only to putin. This situation requires exceptional leadership qualities, Chuck is trying to hide instead of leading.
I mean will she be paying it? Who has an extra $1,800/m laying around? Everyone should stop talking about ever retiring until we take back our country from the fascists and get universal Healthcare. I don't think people realize how screwed we are. Job supplied insurance is indentured servitude.🤬
Shouldn’t be paying anything.
That is correct!
WV went 70% for Dumpty. They are getting exactly what they voted for.
Many will drop their health insurance.
They won't have any choice.
Yep. It’s freaking ridiculous.
Will she have to go zero insurance and then rely on Medicaid? Is this the gop's plan?
Not if they are also cutting Medicaid which they are.
exactly; make the ACA too expensive, have to use Medicare, and then deny that - the want us dead - but then, how do they continue to make their millions with no backs to break? I don't understand it.
The answer is simply that they want the older people with memories of what real democracy is to die off. The younger, less resistant, more malleable minds can be hammered into compliance and won't know anything is different or wrong. The new workforce.
It's something that has always baffled me. If they kill off the poor and middle class who will clean their houses for them? Who will make their phones and their luxury cars? Who will build their doomsday bunkers?
My bff & I were talking about this the other day. If they kill everybody but the rich old whites, who does all the work that must be done but that the rich old whites won't do? can't have robots do it, at least not yet. 0_o Are they just that stupid? I mean, they certainly could be.
they don't seem to be thinking past their wealth, however, trump did try to promote the work release from concentration camp program to be farm workers.....entrust the human cattle to the care of the plantation owners........ Release the Epstein/trump files NOW.
I actually believe at this point that the GOP plan for everyone is to just die. That's what Joni Ernst says.
That is unsustainable. That's more then my mortgage and our TWO car payments!
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America hasn't even started to feel the impact of Trump yet. Less insurance for people, less hospitals to go to, less evidence based medical advice. This is the beginning of the end.
more contagious diseases, contaminated food, unsafe drinking water... And simple reversal will not be an option.
JESUSFUCKINGCHRIST that’s insane. I currently pay $280 every paycheck cycle. I’m a federal employee though. On my basic BCBS FEDVIP plan, with a $0 deductible, I pay $350 for ER visits up from $250 in 2023. Up till 2021 it was $125. Can’t wait to pay more.
Congress should have to buy their own health insurance like the rest of us. Maybe then they wouldn’t be so cavalier in how they let the insurance companies charge whatever they want & profit Net earnings 2023: UnitedHealth Group:$22B Elegance Health:$6B Cigna Group:$5.2B Centene:$2.7B Humana:$2.5B
The majority of Americans I know in my neck of the woods couldn't even begin to save that kind of cash to cover the monthly cost. This problem has been brewing for a long time. Trump & his minions just stuck the nail in the coffin.
did she vote? did she vote for filthy don? do you know how much whining & complaining the magats did about ACA?? the pain has to be real apparently for people to wake the fuck up
God damn that black man trying to make people lives better! Can’t wait to see MAGAs face when they realize they were part of the ACA
Would have been nice if the press wasn't always calling it "Obamacare" instead of Affordable Care Act.
Ha ha I'm gonna die next year
Eat the rich.
My car gets better coverage than I do! I pay $180 for 6 month car policy. Had to drop my ACA at 500 a month as it covered nothing till 6K out of pocket was spent. Fuck this shithole country. The revolt will cometh and soon, especially when all our parents and grandparents start dying from this shit.
America is about to get very poor and sick. Ugh
Trump has totally screwed early retirees
Nobody can do that. Yanks are completely fucked. Great job everybody
What are the poor to do? This is very upsetting and needs to be changed now.
Call their reps and promise to vote out those who don’t fix this (they have 4 months to do so).
Several insurers in Illinois have announced either massive premium hikes or withdrawal from the marketplace.
Maine is dealing with similar, and the largest insurer just pulled out of the largest hospital network over stalled negotiations. In the most elderly state in the country. 😓
I’d say unbelievable but sadly it is believable.
That makes no sense. The average increase is projected to be 75% - why is her increase 500%?
$2800 a month for health insurance is asinine. So is $479 a month, still with a deductible, to get a lower price on medical treatment. But going from $479 to $2800 is going from "fucked up" to "truly fucked up."
This she is paying $250 a month right now based on income of about 32K a year. Next year this she will be expected to pay over 1K a month. So this she will have to go without insurance at the age of 64 because this she cannot afford that. One year before Medicare.
Elected Dems should be shouting about this (and all the other horrors) every single day
She looks old enough to have Medicare.
A lot of people won't be able to afford health insurance. They'll stop going to doctors and some of them will die. The GOP literally kills people and DOES NOT CARE.
A LOT of magas are in for a rude awakening.
So rude. But at least then they'll be woke!
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The 'trillions' of dollars being collected under tariff, and paid for by American consumers, just goes to the oligarchs and Cankles' pocket (if he can get his swollen, tiny hands, into the stretched pockets of a cankle curtain he calls a suit). Unless you already have plenty, everyone else hurts.
My neighbor just told me his Medicaid payments will be $4000/mo. This is ridiculous.
How is that? Medicaid basically is free and income is one of the qualifiers. Earning $4k per month is out of range to qualify so it seems odd the premium would be more than the allowable income.
It's apparently a price they quoted him for partial coverage till the first of the year. Yes, it's SUPPOSED to be free, but there are co-pays everywhere, and it might be what it is, is a co-pay. At any rate, he doesn't have that kind of $ and he's pissed. I need more info, yeah.
There really are no co-pays with Medicaid. In fact, if a disabled person has Medicaid and regular health insurance (think disabled adult child covered under parent’s health insurance but also qualifies for Medicaid), the regular health insurance is first payor. Any co-pays are pd by Medicaid.
He's not disabled, is all I know.
Your neighbor is just confused. It’s a complicated mess.
Improved #MedicareForAll is the answer.
Republicans will get crushed in the mid-terms because of this. Or not.
I don’t think we can call it the ACA anymore…
This is completely unacceptable!!
Oh my lord!
Yup, this is how you kill the ACA - make it completely unaffordable.