“Damn, I just multiplied my monthly family healthcare insurance payment by twelve and reluctantly discovered my yearly expense is $20,220.00. This is not all I pay for healthcare, this is just for insurance. I paid over $3,000.00 more last year in deductibles and office visit payments and prescriptions. This does not include Ryan’s five grand for braces or Lena’s five hundred for extractions or family dental care or my glasses or physical therapy. I’m not fundamentally complaining for my family; we’ve got money. But, the current US healthcare system just sucks, let’s just all admit it. And the Republican plan will probably make things worse, at least for those in the bottom 80% or so. I don’t pretend to know the answer. Well, actually I do, in part. How about putting the 14 trillion dollars we have wasted in the last 13 US military adventures into healthcare. But, I digress. At heart, I am extremely disillusioned that the choice seems to be framed over A- maintaining the ACA and my $20,220 yearly payment or B- screwing over a lot of older and poorer Americans with the Republican repeal. America is better than this. Or, is it? Rant over, sleep well…”

— an anonymous informant (MD)

“When my job lays me off next month, I will be paying $700/month in health insurance fees — but I’ll be getting top-notch coverage…”

— an anonymous informant (xB)