• the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    I posted a link to the source earlier in this comment chain. If you want to see it, go find it. I’m not in the business of repeating myself for your benefit.

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      3 days ago

      Sorry, your dishonest citing threw me off. That is for men under 27 in specific counties, not everyone. Also:

      Remember that these figures represent the underlying, unsubsidized health insurance prices. If you’re eligible for a subsidy—if your income is below 400 percent of the Federal Poverty Level—taxpayers will help defray a portion of these costs

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        3 days ago

        I didn’t say it applied to everyone. I said it applied to me, a lower middle class person in his mid 20s. I said this in response to someone who claimed I was lying that my premiums doubled every year after Obamacare until they were $800 a month and I couldn’t afford them anymore. Sorry, your disingenuous cherry picking of my argument threw me off.

        Also: fuck off neolib

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          2 days ago

          Shockingly, things that help other people besides you can still be important. Also, unless you were making 4x the federal poverty level, you got a subsidy to make the insurance more affordable. You probably just didn’t apply for it.

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            Shockingly, things that strangle the middle class are not good for the middle class or the country as a whole.

            Also, it’s weird that you’re treating “4x the poverty level” as if it’s a decent living. The poverty level in 2014 was $11,000. So a person making slightly more than 4x that would be paying a quarter of their pre-tax income towards health insurance at $800/mo. You’re as out of touch with reality as Obama was.