bballfan84 wrote:ok with the enrollment period offered..my premium went up 60 bucks to 890/month for a family of four and my max out of pocket for individual went up a grand...ouch. Deductible per person is 2500 and max out of pocket is now 6850 per person and 13700 for family...HOLY ALAMO..might just go uninsured. Thanks Obama..punching the middle class where it hurts
Do you not qualify for any of the subsidies? I'm guessing not if you work FT... A 7.2% increase is pretty rough. I really don't understand why the Republicans haven't concentrated more on this. We keep hearing from Bernie Santa Clause and Hillary about how they are the party of the middle class, yet the past 8 years events literally fly in the face of that.
- They support more immigration (legal and illegal), which only serves to provide more competition to Americans that either are employed, or are searching for employment
- Higher Education costs continue to go up, but the squeeze actually hurts the middle class the most. Why? In most cases, state and federal grants are income based and skewed towards the poor, leaving the middle class out leaving them to absorb the full cost of attendance. The rich can absorb this relatively easy, but not the middle class
- Liberals/Democrats tend to support extremely burdensome regulation, which only serves to raise the cost of goods that are consumed in large part by the middle class. See Dodd-Frank, any and all actions taken by the EPA, etc
- Now we have Obamacare, effectively squeezing the middle class in the same manner that higher education costs do. In addition, it hurts the overall labor market as businesses find ways to cut costs to meet the regulatory demands of the ACA
All of this flies in the face of the talking points put out by the Democratic Party and the media elite. But no one calls them on it in a harsh enough tone. It's silly.
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