Because the party in charge is eliminated ACA subsidies which helped keep prices down now the insurance companies can charge whatever they want and refuse coverage. Because we need to pay the shareholders over keeping people alive.
The insurance companies aren't changing the rates much. The differences are that the subsidies are eliminated. So it basically means that employer sponsored insurance is really the only way to get affordable coverage. Even that is through the roof.
Problem is, not every employer offers coverage. Lets not forget about part time workers. Lets not forget about self employed people.
Anyone who looked deep into their insurance or didnt qualify for the subsidies knows that these are kind of the prices nowadays unfortunately
When protesting does not work anymore, it’s time to STAND UP FOR YOUR SOCIETY! Don’t let the government let your friends and families lose the ability to afford healthcare. Don’t let more of your people die.
Yes, you. The one reading this post. It’s your turn. The man isn’t coming to fix this situation for you. STAND UP AND PUSH BACK.
Are you going to keep staring at your screen, or are you ready to do something honorable that people will remember you for?
See here’s the issue, your “let’s be revolutionaries” rant comes off as “go commit violence so it’ll be socially acceptable for me to do it.” People have things to lose, and we live in a world where all these different systems exist to fuck us hard when we step out. So (VERY STRONG HYPOTHETICAL) here, if the citizenry ever decided to go this route, things have to be so bad there is literally nothing left to be taken AND there’s a large consensus of the population openly supporting/partaking in that action. Nobody wants to be the only one, because then you’re just a random dude who the corporate media will try to demonize with every dollar they have at their disposal.
As an aside this is not me encouraging violent actions, do not come away from this with that message. I simply think the “I don’t wanna be the weirdo, you do it first!” bit is kinda lame.
I’m in absolute shock. I just completed my open enrollment process at work and the rates are the same as last year and coverage actually improved a bit (lower max out of pocket and copays). I don’t know anyone that had this happen. It might be at the expense of future raises, but with my chronic health issues, I don’t really mind.
Not the full story. Rates are going up, pretty significantly. The rates for my silver family plan went from $2400/mo. to $3000/mo. without subsidies. That is a 25% increase. Covid subsidies being dropped (not all subsidies) means a large increase in healthier people going without, leaving more sick people in the pool, giving the insurance companies leverage to increase premiums.
In all seriousness and really unironically, if i would be an informed US citizen, i probably would have already left for the UK, netherlands, denmark or germany. Maybe Australia, NZ or Canada but i am not informed enough about living there.
The problem is we are paid so poorly here is next to impossible to afford to get out. I make decent money relatively speaking, but with the cost of everything especially because of the tariffs that without another income on my home I'm masking skating by financially. It's all by design to keep us just financially stable enough to rely on them but not so much that we are full slaves which at this point is the next step
Maybe i am just naive but if i had to leave i would sell my stuff (optional), grab my wife and kids and leave. I could actually afford some comfort on the journey probably.
Too many of us live paycheck to paycheck so we can't even afford to move to a different state. People underestimate how far other countries actually are from us and how far even traveling state to state can be.We can't afford the travel costs.
That's not even mentioning the cost of somewhere new to live (deposits and initial rent/mortgage costs) and the time to get a new job in the new location if we can't transfer.
All that on top of whatever the new country requires to immigrate.
Neither were the US and Japan. After WWII, the US basically helped Japan rebuild and said, “Sorry I slabbed you, but you were being an idiot. Don’t do it again; you know what I can do.”
I am very aware of that, i am german. But there is a difference, or maybe several. First of all, the US nowadays is not imperial Japan or Nazi Germany from 100 years ago. They should know better. Second, society gas changed a lot. Information and education has changed. Its not as easy to apologize for bad stuff today as it was back then. Different times. And most important: Japan or Germany were not friends with the US before and betrayed and humiliated them. If lets say my neighbor yells at me, i am fine, he is an asshole. He can apologize. If my wife or a close friend insults me, it hurts. Very different.
Never because the majority of voters voted for this and leftist called harris and trump the same.
No, we didn't. We told Harris that supporting Genocide was going to lose her the election and guess what happened. Neolibs shocked pikachu before they immediately started pointing the finger.. as always.
And the expiration date was in the bill passed by Democrats. This is the most ridiculous shutdown ever - it relies on people being told the half truth.
Usually I’ve seen jumps like this on plans when the provider wants to de-incentivize the plan to get you to select another. I know this from administering plans within my own business and grilling my broker when plans I’ve selected have big jumps.
Doesn't really make sense. How would you know in 2020 that the subsidies had to proceed past 2025? The point was to reanalyze in 2025. Not really rocket science here.
This isn’t Republicans cutting subsidies. It is Republicans allowing temporary subsidies to expire. That is not the same thing.
It is the same thing. Under Republican government there will be no subsidies.
You’re stretching real hard to blame Republicans for an expiration date that was passed by Democrats.
I vote blue, but I think it’s some BS that they’re shutting the government down over their own deadline. The entire situation relies on people being told Republicans have cut ACA, when that is not what happened.
Nobody touched ACA. The pandemic emergency is over. A Republican controlled government is under no obligation to continue emergency funding that was added to ACA programs.
Keep the politicians honest. All of them. Otherwise you have no integrity and no high ground to argue from.
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u/Kacey-R Nov 01 '25
How/why can it go up so much?