‘Huge sticker shock’: Floridians get first look at Obamacare price hikes
A 28-year-old person in Orange County who earns $35,000 a year will see the monthly cost of the typical silver-tier plan rise from $130 to $290, according to estimates from the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation. The typical family of four with a household income of $85,000 would see their monthly cost go from $489 to $901.
These increases are happening in order to pay for Trump's tax cuts for the wealthy.
People dependent on the ACA/Obamacare marketplaces are typically less wealthy than the local median. Florida household median income by family size is:
- 1 person - $65,801
- 2 people - $81,109
- 3 people - $93,983
- 4 people - $107,712
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Fuck calling this “Obamacare Price Hikes”. This is Trump’s doing; along with the Republicans. Why isn’t this “Trump hikes”? Oh yeah, everyone just shills now.
...AND they'll still blame Democrats for it. Just wait.
They're calling it "Obama care hikes" instead of "Republicans and trump hate you price gouging to kill public health care"
Please don't call that shitty compromise public healthcare. The ACA is a giveaway to private health insurers. It is the furthest thing from public healthcare and calling it that is only going to make more people shy away from the idea.
That doesn't roll off the tongue, though. /s
Seriously, though, it's infuriating how the fascists always get the advantage of the simple sound bite.
That is one of the core tenets of fascism though. Simple sound bites for simple people. Repeat until absorbed.
My relatives are blaming immigrants...
Floridians will shoot their own dick off to blame Obama before ever blaming Trump for whatever Trump has done.
You’ll get as much accountability in Florida as Matt Gaetz’s dad says. Regardless of your actions. Which is none, feel free to burn the house down.
“Additionally, Greenberg used public funds to purchase bitcoin mining machines, which he hooked up at a public building and **subsequently lost in a fire”
Like people blaming Biden for stuff Trump did during 2020 even though he wasn't president then
It’s really frustrating that people that don’t support this and children get the results of the shitheel vote. Really shitty that it doesn’t just impact the idiots that voted for it.
Dragging us all down with them.
The people seeing the biggest dollar increases will be those above 400% of poverty level - $62,600 for singles, $128,600 family of 4 - because the "Big Beautiful Bill" brings back the cap on ACA subsidies. In my area, the benchmark 'SLCSP' is $1150/month (single). 2025, someone making $70k would have paid $560 for that, after tax credits; 2026, they're on the hook for the whole bill. Family of 4 making $130k is going to pay $3045/month in 2026; would have paid $1030 in 2025.
There's big percentage changes up and down the scale, but bringing back "the cliff" essentially targets self-employed people who are finally getting ahead.
Yep. This exact scenario hits me personally. The greedy old pedophiles want to decimate small business owners.
Yet another Trump Tax
Post Obama care
Obama aftercare
So said Dr. Oz: an average premium increase from $13 to $50 monthly. Left off some zeroes, I guess.
You get what you voted for, assclowns.
Thanks Obama!
Trump is the one who decided to divert money from health insurance for ordinary people to tax cuts for billionaires
I'm sure they know that. Back in the Obama days, saying "thanks Obama" for things that couldn't possibly be Obama's fault was a popular way to mock republicans, who legitimately did blame Obama for literally every problem the US had.
Thanks Obama
This but unironically: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2010/02/why-obama-dropped-the-public-option/346546/
https://archive.li/GWC9R