California has me paying 5k for my bronze plan. A friend has a higher end silver plan that would cost me 7k for under 1500 a year.
How is it the poorer folks get much better plans for free or near nothing and the middle class pays through the roof for bottom of the barrel services?
This country is ass backwards and subsidies need to go bye bye and give healthcare back to the private market.
The issue is that you’re looking at Obamacare as a logically-designed, well-intentioned program to “fix” the problems with healthcare coverage. As opposed to a program cynically designed to achieve a political outcome.
The subsidies exist to hook states and poor people on “free” coverage. YOU aren’t the intended beneficiary of that - it’s poor people who have never had health coverage at all. Who were given it (for “free”!) and are now threatened with having it taken away. And will vote based on that.
YOU just happen to be a poor sap who gets to pay for others’ coverage. And those folks will now start voting to make you continue paying for it.
Even better question, why do you have maternity coverage?
Wanna see PelosiCare drop in cost like a rock? Exclude maternity coverage. Put it back as an optional coverage and most people will save thousands.
Of course, a lot of people, possibly including your friend, find out after the fact that when it comes time to file their taxes, those subsidies aren't all they're cracked up to be.
“How is it the poorer folks get much better plans for free or near nothing and the middle class pays through the roof for bottom of the barrel services?”
Socialism/fascism.