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This is because of all the people who just got kicked off food stamps because of the big beautiful bill
Don't forget food banks got their funding cut
thats not even the worst part, peoples preniums on thier aca plans became unaffordable, although there doesnt seem to be that many using ACA marketplace.
I went two years after I got laid off in 2019 having to pay for private health insurance. I got one of those ridiculous catastrophe-only policies with like a $7000 annual deductible and was still paying about $400 a month. I priced policies on the ACA marketplace, with the same shitty deductibles but three times the premium as what I was paying. I just don't get why anyone would buy insurance there. Maybe the ACA policies are more likely to actually pay out in case of illness, I dunno.
One difference I know is the fact is that my private insurance did not allow me to get out of the mandated fine you supposedly had to pay if you didn't have coverage, whereas the ACA policies do get you out of the fine. But for whatever reason, I never had to pay that fine.
Probably has a lot to do with it. A friend says his retired, low income parents had their SNAP benefits cut from $300 / month to $30.
Well I'm sure that has a lot to do with it, I would expect it's simply also just due to the massively inflated prices of many foods and the massively increasing costs of other standard expenses like rent