But actually, that monthly premium is what she has to pay just to get the “plan,” so $18,000 a year. Then the $13,000 deductible (per year) means that the insurance is only going to kick in once she’s paid $13,000 out of pocket.
So yea she’s paying more than $30,000 per year for “insurance”
It’s Obamacare. The single best achievement of the “progressive” movement in our lifetimes.
I think she’s actually getting a deal with that considering what they’re probably using–health care is expensive as fuck.
It’s good to get a head start on what you’ll have to figure out yourself in a few years.
I’m well aware but 1500/mo isn’t outrageous compared to everyone else in the current place out there. Any old is over 1000 even if they don’t use anything.
tl;dr don’t get sick
Pete trusts us to pick the best option out of these for our situation
Main points
Median household disposable income in the UK was £28,400 in the financial year ending (FYE) 2018, based on estimates from our Living Costs and Food Survey.
Median income was broadly unchanged in FYE 2018 compared with the previous year, after accounting for inflation and changes in household composition; this levelling off means that median income has now been rising by an average of 2.2% a year since FYE 2013.
Growth in the median income of individuals living in retired households was also broadly unchanged in FYE 2018 compared with the previous year, with a median of £23,900.
It’s gonna be a rough 9/10 years under Tory rule for us, our best hope as I imagined is TheBern destroying the growing infection of the American Drug industry.
I’m going to steal a line from the Citations Needed podcast: “Choice” is the Swiss-Army knife of libertarian bullshit.
Maybe if the choice were easy to understand and didnt suck it would be okay.
Lori’s going to be single and ready to mingle in 2021.
Yes what Pete said was bullshit; but he’s not trying to win the unstuck politics voting block. I think he’s got a better shot with that shit than what this forum would want with that.
Politics is dumb.
Pete would not win if he copied Bernie. That lane is taken and it’s a pretty committed block. Biden’s got a lot of meh supporters. It’s more geniuslike to go after that group.
It’s the ghost of America Present coming to warn you barmy UK pillocks about the consequences of the dumbfuck choices y’all have made.
GoFundMe recently published an article titled something like “8 ways in increase donations to your cancer fight GoFundMe”. That’s the country we live in. You have to use clickbait and sales tactics to get friends and strangers to donate money to keep you alive. Nice system we have here.
Reminder for everyone to re-check your voter registration. This is about the time of year where shenanigans start to happen and people start getting unregistered / affiliations changed or reset as a result of ‘glitches’.
Already did. My state is hard blue so I felt like I was pretty good anyway.
You might need a reread of those.
Or just watch V for Vendetta maybe if you want hope.
Biden’s argument is electability. If Buttigieg or Warren want to paint themselves as alternative to Sanders, I think they have to attack Biden in a way that harms his electability. Right now, they seem to be going after each other in the hopes of firming up their base. Maybe there’s some prisoner’s dilemma stuff going on where each hopes that the other will throw bombs at Biden first and take the hit of any blowback.
I’d start by giving a token defense of Hunter Biden on Burisma, but pivoting to his job at MBNA, leading to a discussion of why Joe Biden was once referred to as the “Senator of MBNA” and why Biden was one of the few Democrats to vote for the 2005 bankruptcy bill which inspired Elizabeth Warren to become more political.
Donald Trump campaigned on draining the swamp and that message resonated. We need a candidate who will tell people that the Democratic establishment is part of the swamp and that Trump only wanted to drain the swamp so he can build a bigger swamp in its place. Biden wants to roll back the clock to a time that was less corrupt but still corrupt. His primary opponents need to point that out, even if it means making some people who don’t like Trump being unenthusiastic about Biden and giving them sufficient lack of motivation to go to the polls that it might cost Dems some votes if Biden is the nominee.
A likely scenario I’m seeing unfolding is Pete and Biden combine delegates in a brokered convention to make Biden president and Pete VP. Biden serves his one term then sets up Pete to run in 2024. Sort of a win-win for all involved as Pete ultimately gets his way to the Presidency, which is all he cares about. I’m sure the dem establishment thinks this is the dream ticket that everyone wants.
