Lots of Job Hunting, but No Job, Despite Low Unemployment

Re:Lots of Job Hunting, but No Job, Despite Low Unemployment by lotsofpulp on Friday November 01, 2019 @09:31AM (#21418548)

I know all the academic work that goes into calculating inflation, but it’s never tracked to my comings and goings in a very high COL area. My health insurance premiums alone just increased 10%, not even counting the increases in deductible, copay, and oop max.

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Re:Lots of Job Hunting, but No Job, Despite Low Unemployment by perl4ever on Friday November 01, 2019 @07:03PM (#21424623)

I was just reading a news article that claimed ACA premiums are down like 4%. Then again, now that I have an employer-provided plan (since about 5 months ago) (that appears to be worse than the ACA option) it's going up noticeably for 2020.

The smallest reform to the healthcare system that I think would be substantially beneficial, is just to let ACA plans compete for employed people on an equal basis. It's unreasonable that once you have a job then you have to pay way more for a marketplace plan. I'm nowhere near my deductible for the forseeable future, but certain office visits doubled in price just because I have a job with a temp agency that provides shitty insurance that effectively disqualifies me for an ACA plan.

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Re:Lots of Job Hunting, but No Job, Despite Low Unemployment by tmaly on Friday November 01, 2019 @10:03AM (#21418915)

There are serious consequences to calculating inflation.

If the published number spikes, so does the COL adjustments for social security. This would easily put the government underwater.

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