You're right, I made up all the numbers and stats, and wrote a long ass comment because I'm clearly just full of shit and a liar, my lived experience doesn't matter because you can sit behind your computer and pretend numbers on a screen translate to the real world.

I definitely didn't research after meeting with my therapist recently who urged me to look into my state's health insurance marketplace, I totally just made up all of the numbers, including my salary and my state's maximum income level for their Medicaid plan which I haven't totally been tracking since it was $17,583 back in like 2020.

Yep, you got me, it was all a prank. And I'm not giving location info to some rando on the internet who can't accept the reality he lives may not be the reality for everyone. For fuck's sake, John Oliver did a segment on the Medicaid gap several years ago, and nothing significant has changed for a lot of people. Guess we're all just wrong then, stupid us.