HHS finalizes rule guaranteeing 100 percent funding for new Medicaid beneficiaries

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35. Here's why the Middle Class is screwed - the text you offer

Up tells us that a middle class family of four, with an income of some 40K, is going to have to cough up some 7.6K a year.

To the Elite, and Entitled people in office, 7,600 bucks is easily obtainable - you just wait till your next$ 40K bonus check, put 90% of it in your IRA and then put the rest into the problem you need it for. They have no concept of what it is like to be among the lower incomed.

I remember Hillary Clinton, way back in the early nineties, saying that under her plan (Which is very similar to the ACA we have now) a family of four making 24K would only have to come up with 4K a year.

But a family of four making 24,000 a year back in 1993 - I guess if they were living in Alabama like she and Bill had been doing, maybe the money was available. (Rural Alabama rents back then were extremely low.) But for most Americans on that type of income, 4 thousand dollars might as well be four million. It just is not there. It's especially not there if you and your family are living where the jobs are - rents tend to be high in coastal cities where the jobs exist and where wages are a bit higher.

f course, if the Elite who occupy Political Positions had cared about the lower middle class, they would have fought tooth and nail for Universal Single Payer HC. But they were really just arranging the chairs on the Titanic of American Health Care system, with most of their concern being about a guarantee that their friends at the Big Insurers would still have lots of profit.