The unprecedented healthcare cuts that President Donald Trump and the Republican Party enacted last summer have impacted people in all 50 US states, stripping insurance coverage from around 8 million Americans total and wreaking havoc on hospitals and other providers nationwide.
The advocacy group Protect Our Care on Tuesday released state-by-state fact sheets detailing how many people have lost Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and Affordable Care Act coverage due to Republican policy decisions, including the party’s roughly $900 billion in cuts to Medicaid and decision to let enhanced ACA subsidies expire, sending premiums skyrocketing.
My partner’s healthcare coverage would cost like $2000 a month for her and myself if she bought in. That’s a huge chunk of her pay. I don’t know how people are doing this shit with kids and things because not only did the coverage get shittier over time, the premiums have gone through the fucking roof.
The only affordable way to do this IMO is for each person in the household to have a full-time insurance providing job because the insurance for the employee themselves is a fraction of the cost of even covering themselves plus a spouse. Completely ridiculous.