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holy shit is it really 26000?? that's more than what i pay in tax every year in europe. (granted i am poor but)
the US already spends more public funds in healthcare per capita than every country with free healthcare.
on top of that, we pay a shit ton extra for insurance, then a shit ton more in copays/deductibles, plus a shit ton more because something isn't included....
you could lower taxes by thousands and give everyone free healthcare.
the US healthcare is nothing but a massive scam. the kind where the perpetators kill tens of thousands per year and rake in endless money. there's no justification besides rich people like being rich, even if it means killing thousands of innocents. in any civilized world those executives should be tortured to death.
You guys need a lot more Italian plumbers...
why? they didn't do anything, Luigi was with me that day
It was like 500-600 a month for two people a decade ago but the insurance plans on the exchange have gone up in price about a 100 monthly, every year. But they also dissappear after getting too high, so there are increasingly fewer plans from new or small providers. This year it's 1200 monthly. These plans were actually quite good though compared to regular plans people get from their employer, with 0 copay and 0 deductible. For low income people on the exchange it cost them 0-100$ monthly for them, and the subsidies covered the entire plan cost up to around 1000$ a month. So last year you could have excellent health coverage for 50 dollars a month, but no longer.
The big problem of course was that without the universal mandate, the whole obamacare plan didn't really work long term because the cost kept going up without any of the parts to keep that price down because of the Supreme court.
I'm super skeptical of the 0 deductible plans. I've only ever seen them offered in situations where the plans can be expected to be not-great, both on the marketplace for both '25 and '26 (I'd never used the insurance marketplace before last year) and when working at a tiny company with less than 10 employees. I'm not sure how they work but given that I assume they end up costing more than plans with a deductible
Tbh this is also shocking to me as an American. I am not sure if this is only for marketplace plans or a specific kind or what
The marketplace just had their subsidies cut. Its so funny its like "here's less than 1/3 back what we cut to line our pockets, you filthy animals, PS, fuck off and die, signed Donald Pedophile Trump."
The insult on top of that injury is that the penalties for being uninsured weren't removed.
Assuming a typical family of four, 2k a month for marketplace insurance is actually pretty cheap. My partner just got his tax documents, and between him and his employer, they spent 10k last year to insure a single adult. I've got a ton of health problems, and we've talked about adding me to his plan, but that's an extra $500 a month.
It's not 2k for coverage... Its 2k to gfys. Orange man backwards ubi