I vow to spend no more than 10% of my non-work time thinking or discussing politics. This will be easier when I am no longer an Emerging Market's investor as of 1/31/14 and when I have an Obamacare individual health insurance policy at a reasonable cost for the 5 years to go until I reach Medicare.
See David Brook's column for inspiration.
Link to David Brooks
Of course, I had to read further in the paper and discover that conservatives groups are suing the government for any number of issues in regards to the ACA. I don't understand why they want to disable the one thing that has been done to make this country a fairer place to live by insuring every citizen has access to affordable health insurance while trying to contain the cost of health care which has reached 20% of GDP. And these conservative groups do not say what they would replace the ACA with. What we used to have is a disaster if it were to return.
Prepare for sticker shock!
ReplyDeleteLiberals say that 45 million people did not have health insurance. OK, that is 14% of the population. Many of those were young people who voluntarily chose NOT to buy insurance. Let's say - conservatively - they constituted 6%. So the brilliance of Obamacare was to turn the entire health insurance market upside down to deal with a problem affecting 8% of the country. That is just plain ridiculous!