Millions of Americans face steep rise in healthcare costs - CNN

[TexasTowelie]

Affordable Care Act enhanced premium subsidies lapse at the end of the year, and while the House is expected to vote in January on a Democratic proposal to extend them for three years, the effort faces significant hurdles in the Senate.

0:00 CNN's Brianna Keilar reports on the premiums hike
0:57 Brianna Keilar speaks with pollster and communication strategist Frank Lutz
5:29 Brianna Keilar speaks with Jeremy Koulish, whose ACA premium is set to rise in 2026

[Norrrm]

1. No problem. Just ignore it like Trump wants us to.

Difficult to do if you are in the peasant class.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Where does all the money go in health care?

Hospitals are closing in rural areas, the insurers are broke, people can't pay the bills. You get a bill for something and it's pick a number $8,749.00, the insurer pays such and such, you have copays, and the hospital settles for $879.00. Doctors bills similar.

[cer7711]

3. A 62-yr-old peasant recounts his experrience re: this topic.

A few years ago I was discussing the fact that I could not afford to pay an estimated medical bill on my 11.00 an hour CS rep salary. with the head of HR. Mind you, I had health insurance--just couldn't afford to use it.

I'll never forget the response that HR director gave me.

She looked me dead in the eye and said, "Don't worry; you can pay $20 a month forever. They have to take whatever payment you give them."

And that's exactly where we're at as a country.

Half of us are regarded as peasants who will always somehow manage by hook-or-crook.

"Keep showing up for work, sucker, and take whatever crumbs we give you. You're lucky to have a job at all, working class stooge," is the attitude.

Can't afford medical care? Dental work? New glasses or a used car? Decent food? A house?

Then die, loser. Your only value to society is your ability to work and create profit for your overlords.

PS. Cato advised a similar strategy back in the glory days of ancient Rome.
When asked what he would do with old slaves too physically broken down to work anymore he advised: " Cut them loose or kill them."

That is capitalism in a nutshell.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Translated:

Millions of Americans face steep rise in healthcare costs, leading to undue and untimely disability and/or death, and finally bankruptcy. And if two members of the same family face medical crises, the unfortunate and untenable choice whose medical care to finance.

[FakeNoose]

5. "Obamacare" is a word that was invented by the Repukes

The term "Obamacare" isn't used by the US government, and I've never heard a Democrat use the term. It makes me wonder about the source of this CNN video, however I have no desire to view it.