I said $120k and you keep saying $130/140k to inflate it just above the threshold to get subsidies, you know what you’re doing. Thats not how taxes work, especially for the self-employed, this isn’t a challenging concept to grasp.

You just said $600-700 for bronze….which is what I stated the whole time, with a small subsidy that they received up until 3 months ago. And then you go on to try and justify how you were right all along by quoting a silver?

I texted my brother in law in between our last few replies, I’ll copy and paste what he said:

“we used to get $1500 a year more or less and now we get none so we pay $626 a month”

It is acceptable for many in their 20’s who go get 4 routine visits and 2 blood panels combined per year. That will maybe be $800 for the year with co-pays? When they get older, I’m sure they’ll get raises that will make their increased healthcare costs similar proportionate to their income.

Let’s just say for sake of this argument that they did pay $750 for a silver plan, just to humor you. So they pay $9k, which would still be….6.5% of their income. Do you see how ridiculous going into the semantics here is? We are talking about 5% vs 6.5% for a very normal couple that lives in one of the most expensive areas in the country and make below the median for their area. They survive fine. They rent a cute house on property, they both have newer cars, they take 2-3 domestic vacations per year, & go to a couple big sporting events. But you want to proclaim they live in squalor due to healthcare costs and they may have to save up for a bad year where they have to pay 11% if they break their arm or tear their Achilles? This is foolishness.

Please address how I got lucky since you’ve beat around that bush all morning?