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Originally Posted by kane
Why would your income have anything to do with her insurance if you aren't married? That doesn't make sense to me. If I had a roommate would their income count towards mine? I doubt it. It could come into play when it came to expenses though. if you shared rent etc, but still, I don't see how your income is taken into consideration for her.
My understanding, and it is pretty vague I will admit, is that if you make less than about $40K per year you will either get free health insurance or you will get some pretty substantial financial help in paying for insurance.
The fee is not there to punish the poor. The idea is to give the poor health insurance.
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I don't know all the specifics other than that's what happened. I assume it's because she's on the lease and it's just her and I so they assumed correctly that we were together and incorrectly that I could afford it her insurance as well.
Hell, she has some old debt and one day the Sheriffs department came knocking looking for her. Because she is on the lease they wanted in to "valuate" everything in the house to see if she had enough to cover her debt. They weren't going to take what was just hers, they were going to take everything. Luckily my uncle works for the Sherriffs department and I had him to call to confirm everything was mine. Otherwise you might have seen me on the nightly news because they would have needed the swat team to take my shit.