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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People on ACA subsidy worries about cost in 2026 can get a job with health insurance. Even Starbucks part time gets you health insurance [/quote]

Ah, I can tell you've never worked jobs paying under $20/hour. The vast, vast majority give you just under the number of hours that would trigger your state's requirement to offer benefits. Starbucks may be a rare exception if they offer to *all* part-time employees, but how many people do you think they can employ? [/quote]

Starbucks requires 20 hours per week, which is better than the usual 30 hour requirement:

To continue eligibility, you must have at least 520 total hours on paychecks received between the first and last days in each six-month measurement period, for semi-annual audits on January 6 and July 6.

People in ACA generally ALREADY have a job (Walmart tells workers how to apply to Medicaid), just without benefits. So they would need to tack on another 20 hours per week and actually get it. 
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I'm the PP you're responding to. I worked in MA as a new grad in the 2008 recession, where the state requirement was also 20 hours. I had three jobs. One scheduled me for exactly 19 hours a week. One was for 18. The third varied each week but never exceeded 19 (and I ended up quitting because I couldn't manage the unpredictable conflicts with the other two jobs). NONE offered insurance. That's how this works.[/quote]

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