>All of my crying aside, I'm left with one thought. How in the actual fuck do poor people afford this shit? A unpopular thing to say is that there exists two t

>All of my crying aside, I'm left with one thought. How in the actual fuck do poor people afford this shit? A unpopular thing to say is that there exists two types of poor in this country. The poor and the working poor. The poor are fine, they get Medicaid, Medicare and discounts at the exchange. The working poor are fucked they get to pay higher taxes because insurance is too expensive and when they lift themselves up to a point where they can afford it, it doesn't cover anything anyway. This sort of bullshit has chilling effects. Rig the game so obviously against low income Americans and they might just decide to stop playing. That is why you see the lowest labor participation rates since the 70's. It's better to be poor than working poor anymore.