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In reply to the discussion: PSA - If you opt out of the ACA next year [View all]magical thyme
(14,881 posts)6. the fine will be <25% of the insurance I would be forced to buy
since I make a few dollars too much to qualify for the subsidies.
And the insurance company that my one p/t job offers is the same fuckers that left me to die when I was septic. My dentist saved my life, and I paid out of pocket to a small whole health service -- a nutritionist and a counselor -- to recover physically and emotionally.
So I'll pay the fine. I won't renege, because I don't want them to try to take it from my social security when I start collecting next year, or pulling any other dirty tricks out of their box of dirty tricks.
But Harvard Health will never get one cent out of me, period.
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so I would be better off with insurance that didn't cover preexisting conditions?
CreekDog
Nov 2014
#49
UHC/Single Payer is not one of the options offered or are you suggesting i drop insurance
CreekDog
Nov 2014
#54
I am not captive! I was on unemployment WITHOUT health insurance 2 yrs before that!
VanillaRhapsody
Nov 2014
#39
I have insurance and have compassion for those struggling with it during these times
scarystuffyo
Nov 2014
#52
who is struggling....if you make under $40 grand a year....you get subsidized...
VanillaRhapsody
Nov 2014
#53
do you make more than $40,000 a year? If not you get subsidized....I WAS at 91%
VanillaRhapsody
Nov 2014
#103
Yes you are...if you are claiming hardship and your salary doesn't match...THAT is breaking the law.
VanillaRhapsody
Nov 2014
#75
thank goodness....but you are NOT reporting the truth. I on the other hand who has first hand
VanillaRhapsody
Nov 2014
#104
OR, if you have been denied Medicaid coverage in States that did not expand under ACA
JCMach1
Nov 2014
#91
Oh really? Has he considered how unaffordable a major medical catastrophe will cost him..
VanillaRhapsody
Nov 2014
#109