Biden, as part of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, largely resolved these problems, reducing maximum premium payments (net of subsidies) and eliminating the cliff at 400 percent. The result is to make health insurance coverage substantially more affordable, especially for middle-income Americans who previously earned too much to be eligible for subsidies. Hence the surge in marketplace enrollments.

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    10 months ago

    Often, people who actually get jobs so that they don’t have to be dependent on Welfare end up making less money because of the cutoff salary.

    How is anyone supposed to get off welfare when the system is set up that way?

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      10 months ago

      Yep. That’s the cliff. You make enough to not qualify but not enough to survive or even keep up with what you got before. It actively incentives people to not work