OK. But if they are debt free, own their own home and presumably make decent money with both of them being employed full time, I wouldn’t think they would qualify for the subsidy and I don’t know why they would think they would be entitled to one.
And again this doesn’t answer the question of whether either or both of their employers offer group health care insurance and why they didn’t mention or presumably bother look into that option.
IIRC, the subsidies go all the way up to 400% of the so-called ‘poverty level’ which is very high in my opinion.
The government also, I strongly believe has surreptitiously relaxed the requirements for Medicaid so that a number of the would-be subsidies will be foisted off on Medicaid to make it seem Obamacare is fiscally sound.
I also believe we will NOT see a truthful accounting of true Medicaid costs until after this bastard is gone, certainly not before November of this year.
A family of 4 is eligible for exchange subsidies up to $94K. Their off exchange premium rates may have tripled. In order to get a similar level of coverage on the exchange their rates doubled even with the subsidy.
“But if they are debt free, own their own home”
The bank owns their home. They pay app. 900.00 p/mo for it. Definitely not debt free.
The entire problem here? These are people who had very little, to no, involvement with the government. They did not depend on the government at all.
ObamaCare FORCES them to be involved AND dependent on government. That was the entire goal of ObamaCare: Make more people dependent on Government.
She said that the doubled insurance monthly cost was almost that of her mortgage.