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BigmanPigman

(51,582 posts)
6. Right now 25% of my disability income goes to my ACA premiums
Sun Jul 30, 2017, 05:30 PM
Jul 2017

and this is with subsidies. I had to leave teaching after 15 years when I got sick and my income is from disability and it is at poverty level. I live in the 8th most expensive city in the country to be near my family and now I am very sick. Without subsidies it will be 33% of my income (not includeing co-pays, meds, and other health expenses).
I worked my ass off to send myself back to college to get a second degree and worked 50-60 hour weeks and teachers make very little money and I saved every cent. I ended up spending $30,000 of my savings for only TWO years of regular health insur. before the ACA.
I am so glad the GOP bastards think I am lazy, don't know how to budget my income and waste it on frivolous items and can just get a job to solve my problems. I hate them!

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