Jack told me what the ACA meant to him and his daughter yesterday
Jack stopped by to chat yesterday, he does this about once every two weeks when he can't stand being in town anymore. He wanted to tell me about his experience with the Affordable Care Act and I want to share with you the story he told me.
First off Jack retired early because of a very bad heart and he also has a daughter. After his early retirement his employer, a small municipal Government, no longer contributed to his health care insurance cost but they did allow past employees to remain on their program, giving the retired at least the advantage of the group rate. When Medicare took over for Jack all he was then faced with was paying the insurance cost for his daughter, who was and still is in school.
Jack told me that her insurance cost was his single highest monthly bill, he knew to the dime how much it was costing him and it rounded off to $579 per month. That was then, this is now.
Last week, Jack told me, they had gone to the ACA (State) website and found his daughter a plan. The new plan was considerably more inclusive than the one he will be dropping and wonder upon wonder, it also cost slightly over $100 less than he had been paying, at $472 per month - and that was before subsidies. After filling in income information and such his final cost to keep his daughter insured is going to come out to ..... ready for this, $139 per month.
And so, as I've always said, Fuck a bunch of Republican noise.