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rhiannon55

(2,799 posts)
12. My retirement job (age 65 to 73) was at a call center
Wed Jul 8, 2026, 12:13 PM
18 hrs ago

helping callers sign up for the ACA. I liked it. I worked four hours a day, five days a week, and got to work from home after Covid hit. I have always had social worker type jobs, and this was a good one. I retired when my sister’s cancer returned and I wanted to be with her while she went through treatment. She died anyway, a week after she got home, in March 2024. 😢

I really need another retirement job, because I was not financially ready to live on my small retirement income. I felt like I was helping people in that job, but after fuckface and his cronies started messing with the subsidies, I couldn’t bring myself to go back. I knew I’d spend most of my time talking to angry, disappointed people this time around.

How I hate repukes. They are the reason we can’t have nice things.

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Of course they do,not a surprise. Keep gutting the ACA slowly and it will DIE Bengus81 23 hrs ago #1
rs have been gutting things slowly for years and hope they die AllaN01Bear 13 hrs ago #18
Yes, well that makes sense. Biophilic 23 hrs ago #2
Why do they even call it insurance? It is just robbery without a mask. twodogsbarking 23 hrs ago #3
Look, it costs a lot of money to plaster their names on stadiums and flvegan 22 hrs ago #4
Gee no one saw this coming. mdbl 22 hrs ago #5
The expiration date of the temporary additional covid era subsidies was written into it when it was passed in 2021. MichMan 17 hrs ago #13
True but . . . RedArkGuy 8 hrs ago #25
Um... lonely bird 21 hrs ago #6
As premiums rise, healthier people tend to drop their coverage, leaving the insurance pool sicker on average progree 21 hrs ago #7
And then the "healthy people" make that one trip to the ER wolfie001 10 hrs ago #24
In its current form, the ACA is a very expensive program that mainlines money to insurance companies. Intractable 21 hrs ago #8
"I pay about $180 for the premium. The ACA pays more than $1300" MichMan 12 hrs ago #19
Should I feel guilty? Intractable 11 hrs ago #20
Hell no!!! wolfie001 10 hrs ago #23
But, it is called the "Affordable" Care Act MichMan 21 hrs ago #9
We are the ONLY country with private health insurance RainCaster 20 hrs ago #10
We are not the only country with private health insurance. ihaveaquestion 19 hrs ago #11
My retirement job (age 65 to 73) was at a call center rhiannon55 18 hrs ago #12
Cut out the bookies. Universal Medicare for all. Max out the risk pool. Marcuse 15 hrs ago #14
Thereby defeating the entire point of the AFFORDABLE Care Act. It never should have thrown a lifeline to private Karasu 15 hrs ago #15
It's already dead in Montana. MontanaMama 15 hrs ago #16
In Victorian Britain, at least there were homes for the poor wolfie001 10 hrs ago #22
Think of the shareholders and nothing else, except top management compensation. Meeting adjourned. twodogsbarking 13 hrs ago #17
Healthcare Execs need more yachts and 4th and 5th homes wolfie001 10 hrs ago #21
Are they so blind that they did not know how much revenue they were going to lose? phxjurist 5 hrs ago #26
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