‘Huge sticker shock’: Floridians get first look at Obamacare price hikes
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/29676368
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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FloridaMan, cutting off his nose to spite his face since 2000.
Did they own the libs at least?
Why own the libs when you can do even better and own yourself?
The libs are their doctors and insurance companies. .. so no.
Cipolla's 3rd Law of stupidity
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell
Your country is silly.
Spend vastly more per capita on healthcare (including personal and state expenditure) than any other country but worse health outcomes/life expectancy than comporable economy.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/health-expenditure-and-financing-per-capita
Thats because in normal countries, the health insurers get to bargain for their treatments. Hearing someone say "we will buy 7 million treatments, but only at X cost" will quickly make the seller agree, and the consumer benefits.
In the US, insurers will happily just not buy treatment, and pocket your insurance money.
Never have I witnessed power over big pharma like when they start to run ads claiming the NHS in the UK are not paying enough so people are dying (I'm paraphrasing here, but honestly it's not a million miles off).
It sounded pretty childish/desperate and the ads dried up quick.
Yeah we all fucking know.
ObamacareTrumpcare!Almost like the GOP cuts to the ACA would have kicked in and kept costs down - at least that would be the perspective of paying people until they tried to use their insurance and find out most things aren't covered because the GOP destroyed healthcare.
The shutdown exposed the cynical idea that people don't pay attention until they need to so fuck them over in private and let them figure it out when it's too late.
You get what you asked for! You voted to take away or raise prices on Obamacare so congratulations you played yourselves! Reap it
I can understand this sentiment, but it ignores the millions upon millions of votes that were never cast or never counted.
https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-c6f
We owe it to ourselves to keep those people purged from voter rolls and forced to wait in hours long lines in mind when we talk about the election.
I'm a poll worker in Ohio. Last year was my 3rd presidential election. The amount of people who came in wanting to vote, but were not on our roles was incredibly high. I'm sure it's disheartening for the voters, but man was that rough for workers too. Having to explain over and over that it sounds like you've been purged get rough.
They ran on "concepts of a plan" for healthcare.
God damn I don't want to keeping living here
Affordable Care Act