BREAKING: CBO: Premiums will increase by ***$11,500*** for a 64-year old with middle income

[demmiblue]

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[Iliyah]

1. Fake News

sarcastic symbol noted

[sheshe2]

2. ...

[Johonny]

3. Luckily a senior making 11.4K a year in a state without expanded medicaid only pay 4.5K

hey they still got 6.9K to live on. If that's not generous, I don't know what is

[cstanleytech]

6. Oh thats not to bad all they gotta do is go from a premuim

brand of canned cat food for their dinner down to a generic.

[IronLionZion]

8. Dog food may be a better value

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

12. Maybe they could

organize dumpster diving parties! Just think of the benefits: get out in the fresh air, exercise, socialize with like-minded people, and best of all: FOOD!

Gosh, how long do you think it will be before some miserable SOB of a Republican actually suggest this?

[IronLionZion]

18. Ironically, I've eaten food from a dumpster

I didn't know where it came from until after I ate it. Spend enough time with impoverished hippies and you find out some tricks. They often get organic food from the dumpsters at trader joe's and whole foods still in it's original packaging. In winter, it stays cold outside.

[leftyladyfrommo]

16. Dog food is cheaper.

We are laughing nut this really isn 't funny.

Before I had Medicare I paid $600 a month with 5,000 deductible. I lost my job when the real estate.market crashed so I was paying that out if my savings.

It just ate up my savings.

[gademocrat7]

4. Horrible

[ResistantAmerican17]

5. Making America Great Again

For the super rich.

[TexasBushwhacker]

14. It's already great for them n/t

[AJT]

7. What about 50 - 63 year olds?

[Achilleaze]

9. thanks republicans

No one pisses on Americans as often or as stankily as the republicans and their ignoble Draft-Dodger-in-Chief.

[AJT]

10. I may not be interpreting this right, but are the going to reward states that didn't expand

Medicaid?

[elmac]

11. That is the GOP die quickly plan. nt

[LudwigPastorius]

13. You gotta love the names they attach to these things.

"Better Care Reconciliation Act"...

If there were laws requiring truth-in-naming legislation, this would be called the "Fuck Off and Die if You Aren't a Congressman or One of the 1% Act".

[taught_me_patience]

15. An age group that voted heavily republican

I guess they get what they vote for. This is what they wanted.

[NRaleighLiberal]

17. Sad. I am sick of this winning.

[Corvo Bianco]

19. Don't worry, that's only 1/3 of my manual-labor 60 year old father's salary

Yes, he voted Trump.

[JDC]

20. This is what "winning" looks like

[Honeycombe8]

21. Those are some of the ones who will be kicked off insurance, since they can't pay that.

For those that get a subsidy, the premium is STILL over $15,000. Someone is paying for it. I don't buy into that, "Well, I only have to pay $300 a month! Great!" If I'm not paying the $15,000, then someone else is.

The point is that that's an OUTRAGEOUS amount to pay for insurance. Outrageous! Esp. in the case of people who are healthy; there's no basis to charge them that outrageous amount. It's not like this is a group policy. If it WERE a group policy, it wouldn't be over $15k.

Even for those who CAN pay these sums, it's not like this is money laying around. This is likely money they're saving for their elderly years, when they're sick or have a financial emergency and no way to bring in money, anymore. Or money being saved for a new roof or a/c system.

This system is outrageous. Just outrageous. AND...my premium for a mid-level silver right now is over $11,000 (I get a subsidy). So does that mean my new premium would be over $22,000?

All I can do is drop out of insurance altogether. What else can people do? Just the stress of all this is enough to make you sick!