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Originally Posted by Sid70
I dunno what sort of $$ an average family makes in USA but $1400 / mo seems like a big joke.
Not paying that for a couple of years would buy you a Dominican or sorta passport to live else where.
Why do you chose to pay $1400? Will you be imprisoned or prosecuted in some way if you don't?
$1400 is fucking a lot.
You are being fucked.
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Your observations are correct. It's very difficult for most people. My dad has a family of 4 and is constantly complaining about the price of insurance to me, he lives in a Blue state and his wife works for the county. With all that, it is still over $1,000 a month. I live in a Red state but my communities insurance market is very competitive, I have a lot of options available to me and mine is still $300 a month just for me.
Why do people do it? There are not many options if you want to have insurance for your family. You can choose not to have insurance and pay a fine like you see above. Then you have no insurance. Or you can make such little money that you have more access to subsidies, which is what is taxing the system so badly now.
It's a tax that the government chose to call something else so people didn't reject it as harshly.
As more of the insurance companies decide to drop out, this whole scam will slide even further down the hill. There will need to be a government bailout for the people or everyone will be fucked. Maybe that was the intention? Create a God awful system, designed to fail, so they can come in later and push complete government control.