TPM: "Premiums do not reflect the full cost of coverage."

[Hydra]

100. I was part of that gap with no insurance and no money for it

I got lucky and got a job where I'm getting it mostly paid for, but I recognize where I was going to be, so I try to speak up for it. The people that attacked me for bringing this up would first try to say how I would be benefiting(pretending it would all be paid for by subsidies, which it wouldn't) and then would shift and say that it was benefiting them, so I should be happy for them and ignore the rest. Finally, one admitted that they were having trouble getting insurance for themselves at a reasonable rate and were above subsidy level.

For the people doing well, they don't get what it's like to have $5 left at the end of the pay period(if you're lucky). $100 per month extra for something you can't afford to use will have to come from somewhere. Clothing? Tooth paste? Food? Even worse for people with kids.

I'm lucky not to be one of the people hurt by this...but the fact that they must apparently be sacrificed so the insurance companies can have more customers and the better off can have theirs for less speaks very ill of our priorities in getting this GOP plan passed.