The cap on prescriptions is really where alot of people will see a good impact in their personal finances. There's way more folks than people realize taking medication on the daily and it's expensive as hell
Let's be honest,
A lot of people will see good impact on all of these things. I have personally benefitted from the clearing of the medical debt and the CTC, which both happened under Biden.
I posted this a while back when it happened, but our oldest son was bit by a dog and broke his leg on the Super Bowl in 2023. We've never had a broken bone in our house so this was a first. We have insurance through work and at the time I was working for the city and my wife was working for the hospital where he had his surgery. He had surgery later that same week. When we got the medical bills in the mail about a month later, it was roughly $40,000. We literally looked at that shit and just let it be. Like, there's no way that we were going to pay for that.....so fuck it. We got a letter in the mail last winter that stated that our medical debt from that incident had been CLEARED fully. That shit was gone. They also wiped all of the medical debt from our other kids from doctor visits or random shit that we were never gonna pay.
The debt from the surgery was $40,000 total. The total from all of the other debt was about $6,000 and that had been from at least 7 years of shit. They had stuff from when our youngest son was born on there.
Now, we are not on any government assistance. We make too much money. At the time, we were making a little over $110,000 combined and we are married. So we don't qualify for anything like food stamps or day care vouchers. We bought our house last year in May and I've changed jobs since then. Our house was $525,000 and now combined, we make around $140,000. We got the letter about the medical debt AFTER we had already bought our house, changed jobs, and had another baby (she was pregnant when the dog bite happened).
So basically, even with a higher paying job and more combined income and an improved living situation, we still had our medical debt wiped. Now, neither of us have student loans but having that medical debt wiped is sort of like having student loan debt forgiven except you don't pay monthly for the medical debt like student loan debt. Still, that was $50,000 in debt that was just wiped and it happened under Biden with laws and policies that happened under Biden. Not Trump. Not Republicans that will block every single attempt at shit like that.
We were also getting that CTC too until, you guessed it, Republicans killed it.
So that's why I have been looking with a little side eye at people asking about Kamala's policies because I don't think niggas were really paying attention to Biden's policies. Biden DID A LOT OF SHIT SINCE HE'S BEEN IN OFFICE AND A LOT OF IT HAS HELPED AND IMPACTED BLACK PEOPLE.
And I get it that niggas are gonna put their political thinking caps on and get their shit off, but I can't sit here and act like NOTHING has been getting done or that there hasn't been shit done that has actually helped, impacted, and addressed a lot of shit that niggas be complaining about.
It's just wild seeing people finally paying attention during election season (which is common) and not realizing that a lot of shit that they are complaining about, has already been addressed and that there is literally an entire political party (Republicans), that solely exist to roll back or prevent any of those things that people are asking to get done from getting done.
Niggas would rather measure levels of Blackness than actually look at who is really coming for your Blackness..........
