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Young adults are getting used to living on a financial cliff (www.nbcnews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Getting used to? Without a decent option for health insurance, a sizeable chunk of us have been living for our entire adult lives with the reality that one wrong move could bankrupt us. Even if we have savings and aren't actually living paycheck to paycheck.

The rest of us who can afford to be on the affordable care act or have insurance through work are shelling out a quarter of our paychecks so that we can have the privilege of two checkups and hospitals can graciously (legally, if you have insurance) not charge more than $18,000 per year, which is a limit that can be reached in a single visit.

That's just one of the things that keep young adults down here.