If your income is low enough. I make $3/hr above minimum wage in my state. I make too much to qualify for Medicaid, so I was redirected to the marketplace.
Cheapest plan when I checked less than a month ago was $275/month with a $10,000 deductible that had to be met, prescriptions were only covered like 50% until you hit the deductible, doctor’s visits and tests were 60% on me until I hit the deductible, none of my doctors were in their network, and it was a shit plan.
The best “budget” plan I could find was about $400/month, doctor’s visits were $50, tests were split 50/50, prescriptions were 60% covered but only until the deductible of $7,000 was reached, then it was 100%, oh, and still none of my doctors were in their network.
So I make $37,000/year before taxes, and I’m expected to spend $3,300 to $4,800 annually on insurance that’s going to make me spend another $7-$10k before they’ll even cover everything. So I have to spend $10,300-$14,800 of my salary that, again, is too high to qualify for Medicaid, for health insurance.
What part of that is easy or so simple that you just get on the marketplace and have free health insurance, yay!! My state caps the Medicaid qualifying salary for a single person with no dependents at like $19,000/year. So should I just go knock up a few women and pump out a couple kids? Cause then I’d fucking qualify for Medicaid on my current salary, and maybe I could visit a fucking dentist for the first time in 6 fucking years.
Edit: Oh, and those monthly insurance costs were after the reductions you mentioned, that’s what I’d have paid with help from the government. If Obamacare works for some people, I’m glad, but it leaves a lot of us out in the fucking cold and I’m tired of hearing that it’s just so goddamn easy to get free health insurance in this fucking Third World country we call America.
You’re right, I made up all the numbers and stats, and wrote a long ass comment because I’m clearly just full of shit and a liar, my lived experience doesn’t matter because you can sit behind your computer and pretend numbers on a screen translate to the real world.
I definitely didn’t research after meeting with my therapist recently who urged me to look into my state’s health insurance marketplace, I totally just made up all of the numbers, including my salary and my state’s maximum income level for their Medicaid plan which I haven’t totally been tracking since it was $17,583 back in like 2020.
Yep, you got me, it was all a prank. And I’m not giving location info to some rando on the internet who can’t accept the reality he lives may not be the reality for everyone. For fuck’s sake, John Oliver did a segment on the Medicaid gap several years ago, and nothing significant has changed for a lot of people. Guess we’re all just wrong then, stupid us.
If your income is low enough. I make $3/hr above minimum wage in my state. I make too much to qualify for Medicaid, so I was redirected to the marketplace.
Cheapest plan when I checked less than a month ago was $275/month with a $10,000 deductible that had to be met, prescriptions were only covered like 50% until you hit the deductible, doctor’s visits and tests were 60% on me until I hit the deductible, none of my doctors were in their network, and it was a shit plan.
The best “budget” plan I could find was about $400/month, doctor’s visits were $50, tests were split 50/50, prescriptions were 60% covered but only until the deductible of $7,000 was reached, then it was 100%, oh, and still none of my doctors were in their network.
So I make $37,000/year before taxes, and I’m expected to spend $3,300 to $4,800 annually on insurance that’s going to make me spend another $7-$10k before they’ll even cover everything. So I have to spend $10,300-$14,800 of my salary that, again, is too high to qualify for Medicaid, for health insurance.
What part of that is easy or so simple that you just get on the marketplace and have free health insurance, yay!! My state caps the Medicaid qualifying salary for a single person with no dependents at like $19,000/year. So should I just go knock up a few women and pump out a couple kids? Cause then I’d fucking qualify for Medicaid on my current salary, and maybe I could visit a fucking dentist for the first time in 6 fucking years.
Edit: Oh, and those monthly insurance costs were after the reductions you mentioned, that’s what I’d have paid with help from the government. If Obamacare works for some people, I’m glad, but it leaves a lot of us out in the fucking cold and I’m tired of hearing that it’s just so goddamn easy to get free health insurance in this fucking Third World country we call America.
What state?
A blue one, not that that makes any fucking difference.
It makes a difference because if you tell me the state you’re in, I can look up the specific data to prove you a liar.
You’re right, I made up all the numbers and stats, and wrote a long ass comment because I’m clearly just full of shit and a liar, my lived experience doesn’t matter because you can sit behind your computer and pretend numbers on a screen translate to the real world.
I definitely didn’t research after meeting with my therapist recently who urged me to look into my state’s health insurance marketplace, I totally just made up all of the numbers, including my salary and my state’s maximum income level for their Medicaid plan which I haven’t totally been tracking since it was $17,583 back in like 2020.
Yep, you got me, it was all a prank. And I’m not giving location info to some rando on the internet who can’t accept the reality he lives may not be the reality for everyone. For fuck’s sake, John Oliver did a segment on the Medicaid gap several years ago, and nothing significant has changed for a lot of people. Guess we’re all just wrong then, stupid us.
Pants on fire.