Middle class workers will have to drop their insurance because they don’t qualify for subsidies and can’t afford the premiums. Obamacare was never meant to help them out but instead to create a whole new group of government dependents.
It’s worse than that, because the “prices” for care are jacked up if you don’t have insurance. The insurance companies pay different rates—list, rather than wholesale— than people who walk in, unless they plead poverty, raise a fuss, and negotiate. When you’re sick, you can’t always do that.
So, you’re also screwed without insurance if you get sick.
My husband dropped off the health insurance paperwork today. “It is only going up 7% this year.”
“Only? That’s much more than inflation.”
“Yes, but it is still less than the 10% it did last year.”