Opinion | Bidencare Is a Really Big Deal
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Health coverage is one area where a president’s policy makes all the difference.

Biden, as part of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, largely resolved these problems, reducing maximum premium payments (net of subsidies) and eliminating the cliff at 400 percent. The result is to make health insurance coverage substantially more affordable, especially for middle-income Americans who previously earned too much to be eligible for subsidies. Hence the surge in marketplace enrollments.

  • SnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.world
    582·
    10 months ago

    I am losing Medicaid starting March 1st because I make $131 a month too much SSDI and am fully disabled. There are 40 million more Americas just like me and there is no solution.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      253·
      10 months ago

      There is a solution. Universal healthcare. There just isn’t the political will. I’m sorry you’re losing Medicaid. I hope you don’t have any chronic health conditions.

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        10 months ago

        There is a solution. Universal healthcare. There just isn’t the political will.

        Yeah, and we’ve been trying since Teddy Roosevelt. But hey, at least there’s the political will to support Netanyahu’s genocide. That’s way more important than whatever piddly nonsense poor sick people want.

    • june@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      10 months ago

      The welfare cliff is, I think, one of the biggest drivers of poverty in the states. Without a system that provides a smooth transition there’s really no way that people can get out of poverty.

      • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        10 months ago

        Often, people who actually get jobs so that they don’t have to be dependent on Welfare end up making less money because of the cutoff salary.

        How is anyone supposed to get off welfare when the system is set up that way?

        • june@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          10 months ago

          Yep. That’s the cliff. You make enough to not qualify but not enough to survive or even keep up with what you got before. It actively incentives people to not work

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
      123·
      10 months ago

      Sorry to hear that. The Republican-controlled house of congress is so dysfunctional that I can’t imagine their fixing it before you lose coverage.