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In reply to the discussion: This flippant attitude toward those harmed by the ACA will cost us 2014. [View all]Flatulo
(5,005 posts)(and so is his girlfriend) and is working at Boston Market after 6 years and $250,000 worth of college that we slaved to put him through. Tragically, there are no fucking jobs for recent college grads. Massachusetts is one of the most expensive states to live in. An incredibly shitty house in an incredibly shitty neighborhood is $250K. Property taxes are fucking ridiculous. Decent food is fucking ridiculous. Cable TV and internet access is fucking ridiculous. Car insurance is fucking ridiculous. And now health insurance, if you're not lucky enough to be poor enough to merit subsidies, will be putting many people in my demographic into the poorhouse.
My wife and I combined make $87K before taxes. After federal, state, sales, property and excise taxes, and an auto insurance bill of $4K annually, we net maybe $4K per month. That's $48K annually.
And your still fine with a potential $24,000 annual health insurance bill? Half of our after tax income? Twenty-fucking-four fucking-thousand fucking dollars per fucking year? Is this what I busted my ass for for 37 years, to be fucking broke in my declining years?
Let me be perfectly clear about this: I would rather bleed to death out of my asshole in some E/R parking lot than pay that much for insurance. If I get hit with the Cancer stick, too bad. I'll fucking die, and until I do I'll ring up as much of a bill at the E/R as humanly possible before I do, and I hope it runs into the million$. I'll rent a fucking motel room across the street and fucking crawl through my own pus every day before I'll pay that much for insurance.