CBS Washington(CBSDC) – A University of Michigan graduate penned an open letter that went viral online as she described how President Barack Obama’s signature health care law hurts the working poor, and has “raped” her future.
Ashley Dionne, 26, posted the now-viral letter to conservative radio host Dennis Prager’s Facebook page earlier this week.
She explains how she graduated from the University of Michigan in 2009, at which point she was told she was “too educated and wouldn’t stay” at low-paying jobs.
Dionne writes that she has a series of medical conditions, and the Obamacare system pushes her out of a system that favors the non-working poor.
“I have asthma, ulcers, and mild cerebral palsy. Obamacare takes my monthly rate from $75 a month for full coverage on my “Young Adult Plan,” to $319 a month. After $6,000 in deductibles, of course,” Dionne wrote in the Facebook post.
“Liberals claimed this law would help the poor. I am the poor, the working poor, and I can’t afford to support myself, let alone older generations and people not willing to work at all.”
The Affordable Care Act allows kids to stay on their parents’ health care plans until the age of 26.
Although she writes that she landed a job at a gym, she states that it only allows for 32 hours each week, for eight dollars an hour. And she bluntly adds that Obamacare costs for will only increase difficulties for young adults.
“This law has raped my future,” she writes. “It will keep me and kids my age from having a future at all. This is the real face of Obamacare and it isn’t pretty.”
–Benjamin Fearnow
I would wager a guess, that Ashley Dionne will be getting to know the IRS a lot better, now that her letter has gone viral.
Rough times in America…
$75 per month? Bullshit.
Hey, 26 year old: Try being almost 50 and having your career outsourced and your retirement wiped out. You’ll have time after this is over. STFU.
Well there is little compassion on this comment list. Young people are having a hard time of it. I am 55 I was laid off in 2008. I have been back to school and so far earned two associate degrees one in networking. I have no job, but am still trying to get one while I am in school. The prospects of a job in IT with a degree for someone my age well I finding they are not good.
But My point is I can still appreciate the pain another is going through.