Open enrollment increases for 2026

#101
#101
BeardedVol said:
Go down to red Georgia and tell your fellow MAGAs that those ACA subsidies were a mistake, and that it they just bootstrap harder, then they'll be fine.

The still won't be able to afford their insurance premiums, but who cares, right?
www.ajc.com

Massive ACA price hikes revealed as Georgia Access window shopping opens early

Some premium prices are more than tripling as ACA pandemic-era subsidies expire nationwide. The issue prompted the congressional shutdown.
www.ajc.com www.ajc.com

Then when all those uninsured people start going to the ER for primary care again, the rest of us who can afford our premiums can watch them increase further when hospital systems pass on the increased operating costs.
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I will be sure to go to Georgia tell my fellow MAGAs that the only way that ACA lowers health insurance prices for some Americans are through government subsidies that were introduced during Covid.
 
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#102
BeardedVol said:
Go down to red Georgia and tell your fellow MAGAs that those ACA subsidies were a mistake, and that it they just bootstrap harder, then they'll be fine.

The still won't be able to afford their insurance premiums, but who cares, right?
www.ajc.com

Massive ACA price hikes revealed as Georgia Access window shopping opens early

Some premium prices are more than tripling as ACA pandemic-era subsidies expire nationwide. The issue prompted the congressional shutdown.
www.ajc.com www.ajc.com

Then when all those uninsured people start going to the ER for primary care again, the rest of us who can afford our premiums can watch them increase further when hospital systems pass on the increased operating costs.
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that's no different than now. really you are just arguing about which part of their bill that the rest of us pay.

either the poor get "cheap" ACA insurance, and the rest of us pay for the difference.
or, the poor don't get cheap ACA insurance, and the rest of us pay for the ER trips, but nothing else.

as someone who just missed out on being poor enough for ACA in Georgia when it rolled out, I will tell you to take your false concern and shove it. government interference costs us money, whether its on the front or the back end, doesn't change that it cost us money.
 
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LouderVol said:
that's no different than now. really you are just arguing about which part of their bill that the rest of us pay.

either the poor get "cheap" ACA insurance, and the rest of us pay for the difference.
or, the poor don't get cheap ACA insurance, and the rest of us pay for the ER trips, but nothing else.

as someone who just missed out on being poor enough for ACA in Georgia when it rolled out, I will tell you to take your false concern and shove it. government interference costs us money, whether its on the front or the back end, doesn't change that it cost us money.
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When the ACA rolled out all the people in their 20s (I am assuming you and I were in about the same boat) got absolutely ****ed. I had to go for three or four years without insurance because my monthly premium was going to be about a third of my paycheck, with a $10K deductible (for just me, mind you) and 60%+ coinsurance after the deductible was met. Every single plan I was offered was almost identical, and I made just a little too much to qualify for anything.

The whole thing punished being healthy, young, and employed at the start of a career ladder.
 
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BigOrangeMojo said:
Star Raider is gonna be jet flyin and limousine ridin in retirement

Woooo
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What's absolutely mind boggling is I was never a fan of wrestling. I know the ones who made their way to main steam pop culture. But I never watched wrestling matches. and for some reason, way back in the dusty storage room of neurons in my brain, I knew Ted's name and his stage name. I have no idea how I pulled that tidbit of info.
 
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#121
McDad said:
What's absolutely mind boggling is I was never a fan of wrestling. I know the ones who made their way to main steam pop culture. But I never watched wrestling matches. and for some reason, way back in the dusty storage room of neurons in my brain, I knew Ted's name and his stage name. I have no idea how I pulled that tidbit of info.
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If you had, you would have been to train, eat your vitamins, say your prayers, and believe in yourself instead of going back for seconds....

(Going for the TayTay challenge with wrestling catchphrases and gifs)
 
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#123
McDad said:
Math:
360M Americans
3.15 Ave American family size.
360M ÷ 3.15 = ~ 114M plans

114M plans x 400 = 46B

That doesn't include the payments to providers for services.
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This says the continuing the subsidies alone (not UHC) would cost $30B/yr for 24 million....

According to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan think tank that focuses on fiscal policy, continuing the expanded credits could cost upwards of $30 billion annually. Findings by KFF, a healthcare policy group, say that over 90% of the 24 million Obamacare enrollees make use of the enhanced credits.

www.foxnews.com

FLASHBACK: Ted Cruz predicts ballooning Obamacare subsidies now at center of shutdown fight

Sen. Ted Cruz's decade-old Obamacare warning appears to be coming true amid the current government shutdown fight.
www.foxnews.com www.foxnews.com
 
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ButchPlz said:
When the ACA rolled out all the people in their 20s (I am assuming you and I were in about the same boat) got absolutely ****ed. I had to go for three or four years without insurance because my monthly premium was going to be about a third of my paycheck, with a $10K deductible (for just me, mind you) and 60%+ coinsurance after the deductible was met. Every single plan I was offered was almost identical, and I made just a little too much to qualify for anything.

The whole thing punished being healthy, young, and employed at the start of a career ladder.
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yeah. it was a major kick in the nuts. I had two years of working before ACA kicked in. I went from having an insurance I could afford that covered what I needed; to an insurance I couldn't afford that covered far more than I could ever have used. Thank Obama that he made sure that I could get insurance that HAD to cover my trips to the OBGYN, and mammograms.

I legit asked my new doctor (thanks Obama) if I could get screened for breast cancer as a 25ish old male with no reason to think I had it, because it would have been 100% covered by insurance. But the thyroid issue I am genetically predisposed to have, that my old insurance covered under preventative care? Nah, Obama made sure that wasn't covered.

It definitely set me back financially about 15 years. granted it was the plan of a 20 something year old, but with CPA fathers help, we determined that it changed me from a path of early retirement, mid 50s, to maybe retiring at 70. and I am definitely not bitter about it.
 
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