Just went through the application process to get health coverage. The cheapest plan I can get is $143 a month for catastrophic, limited network coverage with a $7350 deductible. That's $2350 a year for practically useless coverage. The next cheapest plan is $341 a month with a $6650 deductible. I make too little to qualify for a subsidy and my state hasn't expanded Medicare. What the fuck? Do I just take the $700 penalty instead of paying three times that for bullshit coverage?
Is this money seriously going straight to insurance companies? Poor people like me are literally required by law to fork out half their take-home pay every month for bottom-of-the-barrel coverage??
Benjamin Brooks
>$7350 deductible AH HAHAHAHAHAHA
(((insurance)))
Ryan Perez
>required by law
Wh-What do you mean? Is health insurance required by law?
Carter Flores
How can anyone honestly watch a person report their yearly income to be $10,000 and then tell them their deductible is 75% of that?
"Welp, don't get sick, poor boy!"
Dylan Sanders
thanks jews
Isaiah Powell
Did you just wake up from a decade long coma?
Brandon Moore
Yes. But who cares. They can throw me in jail and pay for it if they want to.
Owen Cooper
Yes it is. You get a fine for not having health insurance which is now grossly overpriced.
Jacob Taylor
Obama did this.
I know it is kind of a meme to blame things on Obama, but for real he actually did this.
Cameron Ward
Don't pay the Niggerbama mandate. Tell them to go to hell
Nathan Anderson
Yeah, I'll pay the deductible when they send me a bill. Fuck that shit.
Jaxson Fisher
Yes lol or you get penalized.
Ryan Robinson
I mean the stupid penalty. lol
Liam Foster
Insurance and healthcare overall was far better under George W Bush.
t. oldfag
Joshua King
It was under Obummer (under penalty of a fine) but Trump signed an executive order earlier this year forbidding the IRS from enforcing it, so technically yes, but really no.
Lincoln Howard
143 x 12 = 1716
Leo Davis
So now Democrats are just going to let it burn for as long as possible and blame its failure on Trump? I'm guessing that most politicians don't actually give two shits about the ACA because they're rich enough to afford whatever happens.
John Jenkins
just don't fill out the healthcare part of your tax return the irs will not enforce the penalty. Trump exe orded it back in feb.
Luke White
wut how and why
Tyler Diaz
I think that's the plan.
I remember in the early 80s you could have a child and a three day hospital stay for $200. Today it is something like $20k.
Eventually people will cry out for socialized healthcare because 'capitalism is failing'.
Grayson Taylor
Right but the IRS just said, like a week ago, that they won't be accepting tax returns that don't indicate health coverage for the year. I assume that means they'll know exactly who gets penalized.
"...includes premiums, deductibles, and all out-of-pocket costs..."
