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FrisbeeDude
10/16/17 8:18:48 AM
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Trump supporters, you get what you vote for.

https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2017/10/14/here-are-the-states-most-affected-by-trumps-health-care-executive-order/amp

President Donald Trumps decision to end a provision of the Affordable Care Act that was benefiting roughly 6 million Americans helps fulfill a campaign promise, but it also risks harming some of the very people who helped him win the presidency.

Nearly 70 percent of those benefiting from the so-called cost-sharing subsidies live in states Trump won last November, according to an analysis by The Associated Press. The number underscores the political risk for Trump and his party, which could end up owning the blame for increased costs and chaos in the insurance marketplace.

The subsidies are paid to insurers by the federal government to help lower consumers deductibles and co-pays. People who benefit will continue receiving the discounts because insurers are obligated by law to provide them. But to make up for the lost federal funding, health insurers will have to raise premiums substantially, potentially putting coverage out of reach for many consumers.

Some insurers may decide to bail out of markets altogether.

I woke up, really, in horror, said Alice Thompson, 62, an environmental consultant from the Milwaukee area who purchases insurance on Wisconsins federally run health insurance exchange.

Thompson, who spoke with reporters on a call organized by a health care advocacy group, said she expects to pay 30 percent to 50 percent more per year for her monthly premium, potentially more than her mortgage payment. Officials in Wisconsin, a state that went for a Republican presidential candidate for the first time in decades last fall, assumed the federal subsidy would end when they approved premium rate increases averaging 36 percent for the coming year.

An estimated 4 million people were benefiting from the cost-sharing payments in the 30 states Trump carried, according to an analysis of 2017 enrollment data from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Of the 10 states with the highest percentage of consumers benefiting from cost-sharing, all but one Massachusetts went for Trump.

Kentucky embraced former President Barack Obamas Affordable Care Act under its last governor, a Democrat, and posted some of the largest gains in getting its residents insured. Its new governor, a Republican, favors the GOP stance to replace it with something else.

Roughly half of the estimated 71,000 Kentuckians buying health insurance on the federal exchange were benefiting from the cost-sharing subsidies Trump just ended. Despite the gains from Obamas law, the state went for Trump last fall even as he vowed to repeal it.

Consumers such as Marsha Clark fear what will happen in the years ahead, as insurers raise premiums on everyone to make up for the end of the federal money that helped lower deductibles and co-pays.

Im stressed out about the insurance, stressed out about the overall economy, and Im very stressed out about our president, said Clark, a 61-year-old real estate broker who lives in a small town about an hours drive south of Louisville. She pays $1,108 a month for health insurance purchased on the exchange.

While she earns too much to benefit from the cost-sharing subsidy, she is worried that monthly premiums will rise so high in the future that it will make insurance unaffordable.

Sherry Riggs has a similar fear. The Fort Pierce, Florida, barber benefits from the deductible and co-pay discounts, as do more than 1 million other Floridians, the highest number of cost-sharing beneficiaries of any state.


B-b-but I thought it was just the brown people that would be affected!
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NinjaBreakfast
10/16/17 8:23:11 AM
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while not unexpected, I hate the smug centrist bs where people laugh at (usually poor) people who voted for Trump suffering as a result. fuck that shit.
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Zodd3224
10/16/17 8:24:36 AM
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NinjaBreakfast posted...
while not unexpected, I hate the smug centrist bs where people laugh at (usually poor) people who voted for Trump suffering as a result. fuck that shit.


People who voted for Trump should be laughed at.
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FrisbeeDude
10/16/17 8:31:08 AM
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Zodd3224 posted...
NinjaBreakfast posted...
while not unexpected, I hate the smug centrist bs where people laugh at (usually poor) people who voted for Trump suffering as a result. fuck that shit.


People who voted for Trump should be laughed at.

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the_cajun88
10/16/17 8:31:45 AM
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FrisbeeDude
10/16/17 7:53:00 PM
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Bump
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RaptorLC
10/16/17 7:55:31 PM
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They never thought the leopards would eat THEIR faces.
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A_Good_Boy
10/16/17 7:58:10 PM
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RaptorLC posted...
They never thought the leopards would eat THEIR faces.

Lmao
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yusiko
10/16/17 7:59:51 PM
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RaptorLC posted...
They never thought the leopards would eat THEIR faces.


when they voted for the leapords eating faces party it was because they thought only mexicans would be getting their face eaten
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ThanksUglyGod
10/16/17 8:00:11 PM
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What's the big deal? Sure our premiums are gonna go up, but at least they don't have to worry about being politically correct anymore.
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Butterfiles
10/16/17 8:01:31 PM
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NinjaBreakfast posted...
while not unexpected, I hate the smug centrist bs where people laugh at (usually poor) people who voted for Trump suffering as a result. fuck that shit.

no one who actually voted for him deserves any sympathy
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FrisbeeDude
10/16/17 8:33:30 PM
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ThanksUglyGod posted...
What's the big deal? Sure our premiums are gonna go up, but at least they don't have to worry about being politically correct anymore.


Hahaha I see what you did
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UrCa1988
10/16/17 8:35:23 PM
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The type of trog voting for Trump because he was for repeal would only see this as a failing of Obamacare instead of the current administration fucking them just because they could.
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pls
10/16/17 8:36:25 PM
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NinjaBreakfast posted...
while not unexpected, I hate the smug centrist bs where people laugh at (usually poor) people who voted for Trump suffering as a result. fuck that shit.


the left does not care about healthcare and wellness if it's conservatives being affected
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Antifar
10/16/17 8:36:44 PM
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NinjaBreakfast posted...
while not unexpected, I hate the smug centrist bs where people laugh at (usually poor) people who voted for Trump suffering as a result. fuck that shit.

Well put
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sylverlolol
10/16/17 8:43:09 PM
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Butterfiles posted...
NinjaBreakfast posted...
while not unexpected, I hate the smug centrist bs where people laugh at (usually poor) people who voted for Trump suffering as a result. fuck that shit.

no one who actually voted for him deserves any sympathy

This.
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A_Good_Boy
10/16/17 9:05:15 PM
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pls posted...
NinjaBreakfast posted...
while not unexpected, I hate the smug centrist bs where people laugh at (usually poor) people who voted for Trump suffering as a result. fuck that shit.


the left does not care about healthcare and wellness if it's conservatives being affected

It's not the left that's trying to strip people of their healthcare or raise their premiums over night. Why should the left coddle conservatives for the consequences of their votes?
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Smashingpmkns
10/16/17 9:09:39 PM
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Conservatives vote against their own rights and are surprised when they get fucked and the Mexicans are still here to stay. Really nothing new. I 100% DO feel bad for them, but they did do it to themselves.
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bevan306
10/16/17 9:10:47 PM
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you can't hold these poor, stupid people accountable for the outcomes of their vote. That would be smug
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Calwyn
10/16/17 9:15:55 PM
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Bullet_Wing posted...
FJxcJhe

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yusiko
10/16/17 9:18:23 PM
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bevan306 posted...
you can't hold these poor, stupid people accountable for the outcomes of their vote. That would be smug


the party of personal responsibility hates when people hold them responsible for their personal choices
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Paper_Okami
10/16/17 9:20:33 PM
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Zodd3224 posted...
NinjaBreakfast posted...
while not unexpected, I hate the smug centrist bs where people laugh at (usually poor) people who voted for Trump suffering as a result. fuck that shit.


People who voted for Trump should be laughed at.


The average Trump supporter makes 73k a year. Poor people are demonized enough, we don't need to demonize them more.
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FrenchCrunch
10/16/17 9:48:58 PM
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Bullet_Wing posted...
Paper_Okami posted...
Zodd3224 posted...
NinjaBreakfast posted...
while not unexpected, I hate the smug centrist bs where people laugh at (usually poor) people who voted for Trump suffering as a result. fuck that shit.


People who voted for Trump should be laughed at.


The average Trump supporter makes 73k a year. Poor people are demonized enough, we don't need to demonize them more.

That seems too high, lol

Aren't there like, a ton of millionaire and billionaires skewing it?
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ScazarMeltex
10/16/17 9:49:35 PM
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Bullet_Wing posted...
Paper_Okami posted...
Zodd3224 posted...
NinjaBreakfast posted...
while not unexpected, I hate the smug centrist bs where people laugh at (usually poor) people who voted for Trump suffering as a result. fuck that shit.


People who voted for Trump should be laughed at.


The average Trump supporter makes 73k a year. Poor people are demonized enough, we don't need to demonize them more.

That seems too high, lol


I can assure you that here in Missouri that is not the case. All the poor factory workers I work with that voted for him (pretty much the entire factory) all make less than 35k a year.
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KStateKing17
10/16/17 9:49:52 PM
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Bullet_Wing posted...
Paper_Okami posted...
Zodd3224 posted...
NinjaBreakfast posted...
while not unexpected, I hate the smug centrist bs where people laugh at (usually poor) people who voted for Trump suffering as a result. fuck that shit.


People who voted for Trump should be laughed at.


The average Trump supporter makes 73k a year. Poor people are demonized enough, we don't need to demonize them more.

That seems too high, lol

Right? Lol
Hold on, lemme check the average in Kansas

According to the department of numbers, the national average is 55k.
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Zodd3224
10/16/17 9:51:46 PM
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Paper_Okami posted...
Zodd3224 posted...
NinjaBreakfast posted...
while not unexpected, I hate the smug centrist bs where people laugh at (usually poor) people who voted for Trump suffering as a result. fuck that shit.


People who voted for Trump should be laughed at.


The average Trump supporter makes 73k a year. Poor people are demonized enough, we don't need to demonize them more.


The most pointless statistic I've ever seen posted, well done.
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hockeybub89
10/16/17 9:52:51 PM
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Micah_93
10/16/17 9:52:58 PM
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Zodd3224 posted...
NinjaBreakfast posted...
while not unexpected, I hate the smug centrist bs where people laugh at (usually poor) people who voted for Trump suffering as a result. fuck that shit.


People who voted for Trump should be laughed at.

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CatFAQS
10/16/17 9:53:18 PM
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Paper_Okami posted...
Zodd3224 posted...
NinjaBreakfast posted...
while not unexpected, I hate the smug centrist bs where people laugh at (usually poor) people who voted for Trump suffering as a result. fuck that shit.


People who voted for Trump should be laughed at.


The average Trump supporter makes 73k a year. Poor people are demonized enough, we don't need to demonize them more.

lol bullshit
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