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    Neue ACA-Pläne könnten die Selbstbehalte für Familien auf 31.000 US-Dollar erhöhen

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    1. Knuth_Koder on

      I paid for my „MAGA Patriot“ brother’s health insurance for the last 11 years. That stopped after he voted for Trump *again*. My brother is fine with handouts as long as they benefit him and no one else.

      If your insurance costs continue to skyrocket, remember to thank your local Trump supporters.

      edit: thank you to all the well-spoken Trump supporters sending me [lovely DMs](https://imgur.com/a/C5Vw8dF).

    2. blues111 on

      This is hilariously bad, almost like not even being insured tbh with that high a deductible…but im sure thats intentional from republicans part

      Make ACA worse and worse while nonchalantly gutting important parts of it so that when the time comes to finally kill it they can say „oh see its always been terrible getting rid of it is no big deal“

    4. dormsta on

      My premiums already went to $2,770 a month this year, and the only reason I stuck with it is the low deductible. I cannot imagine what that plus a higher deductible would do to our stability.

    5. Sweet_Climate309 on

      $31,000 deductible” is such an unserious number. At that point it’s not insurance, it’s a GoFundMe with paperwork.

    6. mustachiomegazord on

      I have never once in my life gone over my deductible. There is zero point to our system other than the obvious- keep people sick and destitute

    7. HilaryVandermueller on

      I HAVE health insurance through my employer, but it’s a high deductible health plan. I already met my $4000 deductible and $6000 OOP in mid-February because I have a chronic illness. 😩 How can people live like this in the US???

    8. pleasegivemepatience on

      If your DEDUCTIBLE is 31K what is the fucking point of having insurance?

    9. WippitGuud on

      I’m sorry…. as a Canadian, I just want to make sure the term „deductible“ is the same.

      So, you’re telling me, with insurance coverage, you have to pay $31,000 out of pocket before your insurance company covers the rest. That is what you’re saying.

      And if so, and I’m sorry again…. holy shit your country is fucked up.

    10. zappy487 on

      I consider healthcare to be a national defense issue. Tricare Standard-for-All would be my solution without Congress.

    11. ttpharmd on

      That high of deductible and you would almost be better off winging it. Catastrophic coverage taken to a whole other level. Of course medical bills can be hundreds of thousands but there’s going to be a lot that throw up their hands to this.

    12. MakalakaPeaka on

      Always remember the Republican healthcare plan: lIf you get sick, go broke, then die.”

    14. wowlock_taylan on

      Get the hell out of here with that crap. There would be no point in insurance at that point.

    15. SillyAlternative420 on

      Considering most people don’t even have $31k in their banks OR retirement accounts

      You guys are fuuuucked.

      Toss in the job loss from a failing economy. Whew.

    16. TheAnalogKid18 on

      This is basically just a way to make the ACA unusable, effectively killing it.

      These fuckers are absolutely brutal with their bastardization of the law. They use technicalities to abuse statutes beyond their original spirited intentions.

    17. detail_giraffe on

      Any approach to health care that mostly addresses the vast majority of people, who are healthy, and treats people who are not healthy as an afterthought is not a serious approach. A health care plan that is perfect for the needs of someone who has nothing wrong with them but would cost that person AT LEAST $31,000 plus co-pays up to the out of pocket maximum if something actually happened to them is not „affordable“ in any real sense, because it hides the true cost until it’s too late. I don’t think all those lucky healthy people realize how quickly you’d hit $31,000 if anything more major than a sore throat happened to you. Signed, an out-of-pocket-max family who is painfully aware of how much it can cost to have just one family member be unlucky.

    18. AlanShore60607 on

      That’s not a deductible; that’s an annual income for about 1/3 of the country, and the income of 58% of single-parent households.

    19. Lord_Nurggle on

      I have BCBS. The best insurance I could get through my employer because I have been fighting Stage IV cancer.

      I got a PET scan and MRI last December for a $500 co-pay.
      I got the same scans again in June and the co-pay was $1750.

      I almost shit myself. Thank god I was able to cover with a credit card but I would not have gotten them if I couldn’t pay.

      Winning

    20. IntellectAndEnergy on

      Well at least we’re giving billions to Isreal so they can have free healthcare. Think positive!

    21. briizilla on

      Every day it becomes more obvious that the 1% want to kill off a bunch of us off and essentially enslave whoever is left.

    23. Heatherb78 on

      Sounds like what that Congresswoman from Iowa was saying….that people need to lead healthier lifestyles and that they should only use insurance for emergencies…fuck Republicans.

    26. Soaked4youVaporeon on

      I was paying $600 a month for my health insurance.

      Now it’s $900…

      But remember, it’s the immigrants and trans people that are causing this!! Not the rich wealthy elites who could easily change this and give people more affordable healthcare..

      Republicans aren’t pro life. If they were, they would support at least affordable healthcare. They just want to the poor dead though 

    27. wrxninja on

      Our insurance premium through our company didn’t change BUT Anthem definitely made it so all medications are jacked up in price for anything that is not generic. It’s insane.

      All this „social healthcare“ is bad propaganda is all to keep the insurance companies and their buddies rich 🫩

    28. Woalolol on

      The country keeps taking L’s and more than half of the country doesn’t see it nor give a shit. Da fuck.

    29. arizona_dreaming on

      Republicans love this option because it’s a huge gift to insurance companies and it still allows them to say „X millions of people have insurance!“ The original ACA excluded these plans from the marketplace because it doesn’t provide any real coverage. They tried to standardize the insurance, so companies could compete on price instead of stupid tricks to the policies– just like this.

      Single payer healthcare is the best method, but the ACA was the „free market“ option. The problem with the ACA is it does nothing about the massive profits that insurance companies make as the „middle man“ between doctors and patients. It’s like if, when you bought groceries you paid a third-party a monthly fee to some random company who then paid your groceries— but they still billed you random amounts for your food months after you purchased them. And there are no prices on the shelves when you shop. Was the loaf of bread $1 or $100? No idea! Nothing is itemized. Your monthly fee is supposed to cover it, but sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t.

    30. RampagingJaegerkin on

      If you drown in 1 ft of water, does in matter if you are 2 or 2 thousand feet deep?

      Moving deductibles to 30 k will ruin people, and we already see catastrophic medical debt

    31. Infamous_Employer_85 on

      Medicare for all would fix this, or implement the ACA as originally written.

    32. No-Flan3302 on

      If I was faced with a $31k deductible, I would just not buy insurance. $31k and $300k are very similar when you have no money at all.

    36. cmfred on

      There is no bottom, they will continue to take money from people until there is nothing left. Monsters are real.

    37. Bigburlywoman on

      Remember, how you vote is private. You don’t have tell anyone how you voted. Not your family, not your friends, not your coworkers. You can be a republican, and still realize that the current system is corrupted and broken. And the only way to fix it is to send a strong message to those currently in office through a resounding defeat. Send them a wake up call. Not voting is not an option. Think of it like getting a hole in your favorite jeans. You just have to swap to a different, less comfortable pair while your favorite pair is getting patched up. Then you can swap back.

    38. PlainBread on

      At what point do you pull out a knife and stab the person who’s sitting on your chest punching you in the face over and over?

      This is the question the American people should be asking right now, just as they did at the nation’s founding.

    42. ragdollxkitn on

      Medicare for all or nothing. Republicans had plenty of time to figure this out.

    43. teethwhichbite on

      fuck insurance at this point, just pay cash or go to the er and never check your mail ever again

    44. incide666 on

      I am so sad that I live in the tyrannical communist hellscape of Canada.

      O! To experience the Freedom ™️ of the USA!

    45. garyadams_cnla on

      Just think:  We could have universal healthcare and pay less in taxes than we do to for-profit middlemen, who provide no real goods or services!

      People would be more likely to have preventative healthcare, stopping diseases, when they’re cheaper to treat.

      Small businesses wouldn’t have to carry the burden of health insurance to compete for the best employee candidates with behemoth corporations.

      Doctors would receive incentivized pay for positive health outcomes.

      Entrepreneurs could start businesses and students could pursue goals without being tied to job-based health insurance.

      If we all just voted for our own best interests, were well-informed, and held our representatives accountable, this world would be such a better place.

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