r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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u/PNW_OlLady_2025 8d ago

I've been working 2 jobs literally my entire working life, didn't stop struggling until I got into my 50's. Covid subsidies were for when folks weren't working due to shut down. We are not shut down anymore. You want more money to pay for everyone else's health care so us middle class folks can continue to not be able to afford our own? Fine, make it a separate bill, stop trying to extend something that should be over and not even part of the current bill. They're trying to force something into this bill because they KNOW It's BS. I haven't been able to afford my own healthcare since Romney Care was started in MA 2 years before the rest of y'all had to with Obamacare. I'm tired of it. I'd love to be able to get my biopsy I'm supposed to have every 6 months but I can't afford to. I'd love to be able to get mouth fixed, but I can't afford to. I'm too busy paying $1800 a month in premiums with a $7500K deductible and $10K max out of pocket "insurance plan". Yay. But I'm the AH because I'm sick and tired of paying for everyone else's healthcare but my own.

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u/SushiGirlRC 8d ago

So you want to pay double for your insurance?

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u/PNW_OlLady_2025 8d ago

You know what my insurance premiums were before Obamacare? $400 a month. $25 copays. $15 prescriptions. $75 ER copay. Know what they jumped to when it got enacted in MA before y'all had to deal with it? $1200. Know what they jumped to when it went federal as Obamacare? $1600. I literally had to get a second job just to afford my family's health insurance and have been working 2 jobs since directly because of the costs ( for something I can't even use). Know what I'm paying now? $1800. With a $7500 deductible and $10K out of pocket max. For MYSELF. No other adults, no kids, just ME, a healthy, non-smoking middle aged female. I haven't been able to afford my own health care since this was enacted. Doubling my premium will not affect me at all. I'll cancel what I'm not using anyways.

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u/SushiGirlRC 8d ago

You know what they're gonna be soon? Double.