My high-deductible Kaiser plan would cost me about an extra $550/mo. without the ACA subsidy. An extra $6600/year pays for a lot more than an iPhone.
For example, it helps me survive in one of USA's most expensive cities on a $20,000 income and spend most of my time caring for an elderly mother afflicted with Parkinson's and dementia -- without my own meager savings being rapidly wiped out in the process.
Chaffetz is just telling us what we should already know -- wealthy Republicans (and many Democrats) couldn't care less about the problems of ordinary Americans. We are the little people and we don't matter, except as a resource to be milked for profit.
My high-deductible Kaiser plan would cost me about an extra $550/mo. without the ACA subsidy. An extra $6600/year pays for a lot more than an iPhone.
For example, it helps me survive in one of USA's most expensive cities on a $20,000 income and spend most of my time caring for an elderly mother afflicted with Parkinson's and dementia -- without my own meager savings being rapidly wiped out in the process.
Chaffetz is just telling us what we should already know -- wealthy Republicans (and many Democrats) couldn't care less about the problems of ordinary Americans. We are the little people and we don't matter, except as a resource to be milked for profit.