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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So if the poor lady died because she couldn't have surgery, would that solve your problem or make you feel better? [/quote]
And what if the middle-class person responsible for coming up with the money couldn't have the surgery, and she died? Why does the sympathy always go to the people on government aid, and insults go to lower-middle class people struggling to pay their own way?[/quote]
OP is lower-middle class? Like DCUM "lower-middle class," or for real?[/quote]
Just curious. What's your definition of lower-middle class for real? And for DCUM lower-middle class (in this high COLA)?[/quote]
I don't really have one. I'm just thinking of all the hand-wringing "ohmygod, our HHI is only $300K, we cannot afford to live!!" bullshit threads I've read here over the years. Forgive me for not immediately assuming OP is actually remotely hard luck.[/quote]
Here I am, the OP. Just around $60k, before taxes. That would be straight middle-class in the rest of the country (other than big cities), but the DCUM crowd might consider that lower-middle. Everything was fine budget-wise until the insurance premiums starting zooming up at a much faster rate than pre-Obamacare, and remember - I'm also on the hook for my own medical bills for the first $5200. It really is a hardship.

And that's just me. My brother and his wife have a combined income of just under $100k, also before taxes. (Two kids...wife working part-time until youngest enters school.) They also were doing fine until their premiums started zooming up  - last year especially. He told me their premiums are $23,000 a year, and they still have to pay a high deductible. I guess a family of four in the DC area making $100k is straight middle-class.

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