They want to price my age group out of the insurance pools

[SHRED]

I'm 60 and my spouse and I purchase via Covered California.
The current Senate plan will lower the federal poverty limit from 400 to 350 percent.

We'd fall out of subsidy eligibility and with our preexisting conditions I'd expect we couldn't afford any coverage.

The jackals in the industry want younger people to buy junk plans again that they never use yet think they got a great deal. Those days are returning along with caps on coverage...surprise...you're on your own.

This is a mess.
Fuck Republicans.

[Wounded Bear]

1. Wouldn't be so bad if they only screwed the Red states...

but we get to suffer with all the rubes who voted Trump. (WA here)

[area51]

10. Hmm,

Got to love people who forget that there are decent people in red states who didn't vote for Trump.

[mythology]

13. Even if they only limited the change to "red states", that still wouldn't limit the impact

People from red states pay taxes, come up with ideas, grow food, do research that impacts "blue states". It's not nearly as simple as blue states good, red states bad.

[Demtexan]

2. The republicans just want to kill us.

There is no nice way to say it.

They want all that Social Security money.

[Hieronymus]

4. Yes, they want that Soc. Sec. money on Wall Street.

[still_one]

3. Let Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris know your situation. Email or write them.

Both Feinstein and Harris will be fighting against what the republicans are trying to do, but contacting them is still important.

In the current form this current republican Senate Bill does not have enough votes. That does not mean they won't make some tweaks or threats and get those republican hold outs to vote for this awful bill, but it means there will be some type of delay.

It is highly probably that if they come up with something, that won't take affect immediately, but phased in. If that happens, that can buy more time. Hopefully enough for 2018 to either put a stop it before it takes affect.

I also believe that changing the subsidy requirements will be brought up to the courts, which may very likely introduce more delays.

Finally, the state Single Payer bill is NOT dead, but on hold until they can determine what will happen with the ACA, since some of federal funding to the states comes from the ACA, and they need to know how much of the financing will come from the feds, and how much from taxes.

I would also contact your state representatives:

My State representatives are:

Assembly Member Evan Low-DEM

Senator Jim Beall-DEM

Here is the link to find who your state representatives are if you don't know:

http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/

You are not alone in this, and there is power in numbers.

[democratisphere]

5. It is necessary for you to sacrifice affordable healthcare so that the

Wealthiest can become more wealthy. With your pre-existing conditions in your 60s, the redumbliCON healthcare plan doesn't even want to hear from either of you. Welcome to America where we can't even get healthcare right.

[oberliner]

6. If young healthy people don't buy insurance

Then the entire health insurance system falls apart.

That was one of the reasons for Obamacare having some challenges.

[sharedvalues]

7. All for a tiny increase in pocket money for the rich

They'll hardly notice.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[smirkymonkey]

12. Krugman's tweets just underline the sheer cruelty and spite of this plan. They aren't doing

it because it is going to be such a great boon for them, but because they want to stick it to the poor and middle class, who they have always seen as moochers and "useless eaters". They seem to forget those are our tax dollars too. We pay into that pot as well and at a much higher rate than they do. But it is all going to be directed back up to the 1% as we are nickeled and dimed to death.

[AmandaRuth]

8. I keep thinking of that Janis song

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. Seriously, that is the rights idea of freedom.

I'm almost 60, and pretty much in the same boat as you. True, this is a ridiculous mess. I expect my costs to triple.

[MoonRiver]

9. Scum of the earth, bottom feeding Pieces of SHIT!

nuff said, except I am so sorry for you and your husband. I just hope somehow these monsters are kept in check.

[MiddleClass]

11. Hospital gown policies

You think you've got great coverage, but your ass is wide open.

Sorry to hear, you fall into that dreaded 60–>65 Medicare hole.

That's why I'm saying first-order business should be erase 65 and will write in 55 on the 68 Bill