More than 20 million Americans are facing dire healthcare and financial decisions after enhanced subsidies for insurance premiums through the Affordable Care Act expired at the start of the year – and for some the consequences are urgent.
Johana Scott, a Texan battling Stage 3 cancer, told MS NOW that her premium spiked from around $200 per month to $1,725 for the same plan after the subsidies expired.
She said paying that much each month is impossible, as she only makes $1,200 per month. Assuming she could come up with the total, she said she'd have nothing left for groceries or bills.
Texas woman with Stage 3 cancer sees her insurance premium rise over 700 percent: ‘I’m going to die’
byu/theindependentonline inInsurance
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awesome, i love it here
at least she didn’t have to use pronouns
Cool. Is there a question here? Or are we just pointing out how fucked we all are by the orange smooth brains?
American exceptionalism. Are we feeling exceptional yet?
will the hospital stop treating you if you just rack up the bills and don’t pay? like, we have bankruptcy as an option, is there a workaround by just doing that?
This will get downvoted, but who did she vote for? If you voted for republicans you knew this was going to happen.
This has nothing to do with the expiration of enhanced subsidies. This person falls in the gap created because Texas didn’t expand Medicaid. This gap has always existed and was not fixed by the enhanced subsidies.