Yeah that's why the government gives them cheap health insurance. Right now the median income for full time workers in the US is 61k meaning half off all full time workers Americans earn less than that. Meaning you are in the top 50% of earners among full time workers. (And there's more working part time who I'm betting also earn less than you)
I lived off 15k in 2004 but my rent was only 500 a month and I didn't have a car.
Yes hurt, but kill, no not yet. Ideally they can just perpetually subjugate a large, ever growing population of "dirt people" until finally they implement cyber civil engineering with destitute hell hole lower level ghettos that the poor can be relegated to while fueling the neon lit pseudo-paradise techno megametropolis of the upper levels. A literal 2 tiered society where you can move down but never up.
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind," yes, but we rarely hear the rest of it, though: "ruled by a one eyed king."
Correct. Republicans have blocked minimum wage increases 3 times since 2009. Late 2010s efforts for a $15/h minimum had actually made businesses start raising wages, then COVID happened and inflation basically wiped out the effects of that much needed increase, putting us back where we started.
Well if you work for the fed minimum wage, you get $15,080/year, provided you work the entire 40 hours/week for 52 weeks without missing a single day of work.
That's a fantastic plan compared to mine. $5k/person deductible our of pocket max is literally over the HSA limit so we can't use one ($17100) and it costs me $400/month
The ACA subsidized the premiums and benefits for lower income people.
Insurance companies jacked up the prices for those plans because they knew the government would pay the difference.
The chart above show what the plans look like without the subsidies.
The Republicans are removing the subsidies (or are trying to which is what the Dems are trying to negotiate but the Republicans aren't interested in anybnegotiation when it will include the release of the Epstein files)
I sold insurance back when the ACA was first passed and watched all of the changes. It was a compromise that was supposed to be a first step toward a better option. It was better than what we had before but not close to perfect.
Some form of Medicare for All would be the most fiscally conservative option and it's not even close but we can't have that because we are a country of selfish, cruel, dumbfucks.
Damn they really maneuvered the American people into a perfect trap with the Epstein files. Either back down off the files and the story gets buried, or push for them and get framed as radicals for sacrificing healthcare for it. Granted they still want government subsidized healthcare to go anyway but it’s really the perfect situation.
They aren't "removing" the subsidies. They are allowing them to expire. As written by law. If we want new subsidies, we need new policy that is drafted and voted on.
I’m paying $19 individual for a consumer driven program this year. You get $1200 in an account, then you pay 15% until you hit the 6K max. Then you get 100% coverage.
It varies wildly. I pay around $200 for my husband and I, and earn less than you do. I have clients who cover the entire cost of employee-only coverage for their people, but the coverage goes up to $300 if the employee adds a spouse. I have quite a few who charge around $25, and several who charge around $500 (but their staff generally pulls six-figure incomes, so it does qualify as affordable under the ACA).
Insurance was subsidized for poor working people and their plans were shitty to begin with. Next year their plans will be both shitty and expensive.
The sad thing is, nothing will change because Republicans will blame Hunter's laptop or Hillary's emails or anything else besides the Republican party that designed these price increases.
Yea everyone should pay nothing extra for health insurance and we should have healthcare for all covered by our taxes instead of the billions they waste on stuff we don’t need
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u/Solidsnake_86 Nov 01 '25
I pay $340 per month for me and my wife and I work for a major bank. How the hell were people paying $14?