Government needs to take care of regular people, not just billionaires
OPINION – Has anybody seen Representative Schweikert?
Quick background: My wife and I are retired teachers after a combined 50-plus years in the classroom. We are in our 60s but shy of Medicare eligibility. Together, our pensions are $75,000. We worked hard, sent a kid to a state school for college, have a mortgage, own a couple of cars, yada yada yada. Pretty much middle class.
Our current healthcare plan on the ACA cost us $513 a month, or $6200 total for the year. By no means was I happy with that, but then I went to the exchange today and holy heck was I floored.
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Government needs to take care of regular people, not just billionaires
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By Eric Kurland | Scottsdale
OPINION – Has anybody seen Representative Schweikert?
Quick background: My wife and I are retired teachers after a combined 50-plus years in the classroom. We are in our 60s but shy of Medicare eligibility. Together, our pensions are $75,000. We worked hard, sent a kid to a state school for college, have a mortgage, own a couple of cars, yada yada yada. Pretty much middle class.
Our current healthcare plan on the ACA cost us $513 a month, or $6200 total for the year. By no means was I happy with that, but then I went to the exchange today and holy heck was I floored.
David, (may I call you David?) our new monthly premium is a whopping $2,218.69! That comes to $26,625 for the year. An increase of $20,000! Forget for a moment that our copays and drug costs are also going up. Twenty-flippin’-thousand!
And yes, I am yelling, David. It is unconscionable that you threw us all under the bus so some billionaires could get their tax cuts extended. Please, sir, get out there and join the Democrats in getting those healthcare subsidies back. Stop protecting billionaires and start supporting us regular folk.
And for the voters, please, vote Democrat in 2026. It’s time we all received a government of the people, by the people and for the people … regular people.
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