I have been freelance since 1989 and guess what....I have purchased my own healthcare since then. (These are some of the options from my current provider if I choose to switch plans - with no subsidies. A $5000 deductible sounds rather high but
as an example saving 56 cents a day for 25 years pretty much takes care of that.) My parents taught me to be a responsible adult and taught me about saving money from an early age - they started me with my first savings account when I was 8 years old - I learned how to balance a checkbook when I was 10. Making sure I'm covered is just part of the game of budgeting life. I have worked smart and hard to pay for the things that I need without a single handout from the government. All the generations of my family have done the same. Few of my friends in "the arts" have had healthcare because they think that following their bliss is more important than sucking it up, doing what is right, and paying the price. Most of them are loving the false promise of Obamacare. Forcing everyone to join up does not make healthcare more affordable. Healthcare is still just as expensive as it was before the ACA kicked in. It just dumps more money into the pool to be redistributed as illnesses arise. I'm not an actuary nor am I an economist but this sure sounds like a ponzi scheme to me. My parents also taught me about debt. How can a nation that is 17 trillion in debt afford to subsidize a system that gets more and more expensive every year? 67,80,46,0,B,.16
