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Should be a wild four years.

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Sorry for ur lose bro.How in the world did insurance rates get so high?
I am not completely informed but I do know through family billing has gotten crazy for everything especially if the government is covering the cost like in Medicare/Medicaid. My guess is the tax credits keeping the billing down work the same way? Uncle Sam’s paying for it so hey bill that Ibuprofen at $5k! Oh Uncle Sam isn’t paying anymore? Welp, charge the schlubs!
 
I imagine that, if you work for a company of sufficient size and bargaining power, 2026 will largely be the same wrt insurance premiums (you might have to pay $20 or $30 more).

For those of us on ACA-based insurance, though, this is nothing short of an apocalypse.

Oh, that $600/month I mentioned was the lowest offered. There were other plans for $1000 and even $2000/month.

If anyone has any practical solutions to my situations (other than finding a tall building), I'd love to hear them. I'm not above posting a GoFundMe at this point.
I don't see how, shop other plans, bronze/silver (reduced price)/ and golds. Spend some time shopping. Play the stupid game with it, don't be a low level player.

ETA: Guess it depends on state too, but optimize your 'expected next year's income'. Look it up on how, they don't check and if you're off it's fine.
 
I don't see how, shop other plans, bronze/silver (reduced price)/ and golds. Spend some time shopping. Play the stupid game with it, don't be a low level player.

ETA: Guess it depends on state too, but optimize your 'expected next year's income'. Look it up on how, they don't check and if you're off it's fine.
I checked. $600 was it. My specific plan actually jumped to $1000/month. The $600 one was the cheapest compromise.

And I was told that you won't even be eligible for any plan if you don't make at least $15,000/year, so I plugged $15,000 in when the time came. Should I have upped it significantly?
 
I checked. $600 was it. My specific plan actually jumped to $1000/month. The $600 one was the cheapest compromise.

And I was told that you won't even be eligible for any plan if you don't make at least $15,000/year, so I plugged $15,000 in when the time came. Should I have upped it significantly?
Try 18k or 19k, or whatever brings it down to near 0.

There's usually a sweet spot for it. It's just an 'estimate' of earnings you'll make next year, then be sure to do the 1040 tax forms the year after. And the law limits how much you can owe back if off, which is virtually 0.

Don't be dumb, play right. It's really a game
 
Hmmm, okay. I'll adjust the application once I get access to the e-form tomorrow. If that actually works, you literally just saved my life.
On healthcare.gov just redo the application if you already haven't committed, again this probably depends on your state but you put in 18k/12= per month income and it'll give whatever you get as the tax credit. I'm not sure how this will be effected still by fighting going on now, but you should be good. $15k=0. $18k=950 credit per month or so from what I've heard. If 18k doesn't work, estimate a bit more.
 
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Imagine being in Virginia. The Republicans have put foreword the most charmless black kween to ever live. She can't even be assed to make herself look presentable, let alone do tik tok video's owning the libs with based black woman talking points. Youngkin put her foreword to prove the Virginia Republicans are totally not racist, and they are getting dunked on by a bitch that is literally a CIA Asset that glows from space and if you were to have a picture next to the definition of "Upper middle class white Karen" her face would be the definition.

People are despairing over Mamdani taking over New York City, but I think Spanberger getting Virginia is going to be a real flashpoint. She's going to win, but 3/4ths of the State are going to flat refuse to obey her. Virginia has old roots, and if some carpet bagging governor elected by feds thinks she's going to run things she's got another think coming. Its going to be what Mcauliff dealt with for his potential gun ban on steroids. She's going to enact policy in the capital and most of the State will tell her she is free to enact it it if she is willing to send men with guns to go kill people. No guarantee on success mind you, or the survival of her men with guns.

And even with that antipathy, she's probably going to get elected because of how strong the demographic replacement in northern Virginia has been.
I think she's underwater in the polling, seems like they really pulled out the stops to get her over the line, how many times has Obama had rallies for her? i think it's a real coin flip.
 
I have to interrupt the slapfight, this is too good and I don't think it was posted here.


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I wonder if Jon seriously doesn't know that, for over a decade, if I'm not mistaken, he was part of the problem he is describing.
>i'm just saying umm people are multi dimension
>We can't just hate the other side
>We can't umm... turn on our family members over politics
>We can't just dismiss people who disagree with us and..
>and umm people have different views...
>and umm that's okay
>and umm and umm....
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If anyone has any practical solutions to my situations (other than finding a tall building), I'd love to hear them. I'm not above posting a GoFundMe at this point.
I do not know it this'll help much(cause your issue seems to be with sky high medical insurance bills) but i did see this in the EBT thread
They're gonna cave. This is a power move. It's surprising they've come so close to the wire, though. Cunts. Its emotional abuse of the vulnerable, and it's unconscionable.

If somehow we are wrong, and this really happens. and you find yourself afraid or struggling, you (yeah, fuckin YOU) can message me a zip code and i can message you back every low income service near that zip code There's gotta be a way to do this on line yourself, but it's all scattered and can be difficult to navigate. If you need help, please, just ask. Don't suffer through the holidays. Been giving out resources and help here for a long time, never compromised anyone's privacy, and never will. Ain't trying to call you out publicly, Ghostface, but your profile is locked, which is bad and wrong, so now you have to deal with the consequences lol.

https://www.foodbankccs.org/find-food/foodbycity/ https://www.feedingamerica.org/need-help-find-food https://www.humaneworld.org/en/resources/having-trouble-affording-your-pet#AL https://www.samhsa.gov/find-support/how-to-pay-for-treatment/free-or-low-cost-treatment
These are links to free and low income food for you, your pets, and health and wellness resources. If they do not suffice, let me know. Us dipshits gotta stick together




So when is this shutdown ending? Me thinks it'll be after Nov 4th cause some elections are taking place then riiiight?
 
Current rumor is that it will be after the election with the commie Muslim getting elected being the cover needed by Democrats to basically fold and end the shut down
 
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