Holy health insurance premiums, batman

My health insurance premium went up 27% this year. I used to pay $123 a month, starting January I will be paying $169 a month. That $46 a month is coming out of my grocery budget I guess. I've been going to a church every weekend and getting free bread. Most of the food pantries have hours during when I'm working, so that's out. I'm already doing shit like swiping TP and garbage bags from work to so I can purchase less of those things. I'm wearing my clothes indefinitely without washing if they aren't visibly soiled or stinky, and handwashing everything else and hanging it up to dry to save on laundry costs. I Cook everything from scratch at home. I don't own a car, cycle to work daily or take the bus during really bad weather. Outside of a 150 train ride to visit family, I get to take an actual vacation once per decade. I'm sleeping on the floor because my mattress is almost 20 years old and so uncomfortable. Once ever 7 - 10 years I upgrade my PC. I don't have cable or streaming services.

I'm lucky and I know it. I'm so scared for families with children, and people that don't have regular hours at their jobs or decent coverage through their work, and can't afford to self pay premiums via commercial plans. Families that were paying $700-800 a month for insurance are going to see those premiums go up even more. I can't imagine trying to feed an entire family on the pay we get. I'm paying $1300 for a one bedroom, I can't imagine having to rent a 2 or 3 bedroom. I feel like I'm barely hanging on, and I don't have the resources to help anyone else. Where I work there are tons of panhandlers are walking around hitting people up for food or money. 10 years ago, there were 0 panhandlers. The panhandlers are getting aggressive too. I had one put his hands on me when I told him up front I was having a bad day, I didn't want to talk to another human being at all, and I didn't have any $ to give, so save the story.

Stop the world, I want to get off this ride.