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> [citation needed] Your link shows $20k / Family too :-) Look at the chart with the caption "Recent from HHS/CMS" (The costs are you quoting are the monthly
by michaelkschmidt 8y ago
> [citation needed]
Your link shows $20k / Family too :-) Look at the chart with the caption "Recent from HHS/CMS"
(The costs are you quoting are the monthly costs for a single individual)
The costs do vary, but they do not drop off the way median income does in rural areas.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Your link shows $20k / Family too :-) No, it shows < $20K, not > $20K as you claimed. But, the accuracy of the national average figure is mostly a side issue. > The costs do vary, but they do not drop off the way median income does in rural areas. The costs vary enough locally that you can't make anything like a reasonable point by comparing the national cost to local incomes (and, also, you need to consider the effect of subsidies, which are based on income in relation to FPL.) I suspect the reality, before subsidies, may be even worse than what your naive comparison would suggest, but I don't have a lot of confidence in that because I haven't seen, or had time to analyze, national locality data. The bits and pieces I've seen, though, seem to suggest that, while there isn't a simple relationship, local health insurance costs may overall be weakly inversely correlated with local income. But, then you still have to consider subsidy availability—and Medicaid eligibility—to get the real picture.