If you were me, would you participate in Obamacare?

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Originally Posted by Tall Traveler

You've never me someone that tries to keep their taxable income low? I haven't met anyone that doesn't try to keep their taxable income as low as possible....I guess we are in different worlds.

Again I don't understand, or maybe we're talking about two different things...

I've never met anyone who doesn't try to maximize what money they can make, bring home, earn.

Just about everyone I know tries to reduce their taxable income when tax time comes (with deductions, credits, etc.).

You have observed otherwise?

IOWs, I wasn't talking about "taxable income" from a tax return standpoint. Perhaps you were? If so, I now better understand and agree.

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Originally Posted by tinytrump

If the politicians had done their jobs -and paid due diligence to make sure this was the best plan for the people- weeded out stuff that would hurt instead of help and put their a** politics aside- it would be better- they cannibalized it in the name of obstruction-- as usual

Said before and I'll say again, no way no how the massive overhaul of our national medical insurance system could be delivered without a whole lot of "blood, sweat and tears" upon arrival. Involving near $3 trillion of medical costs, nearly 20 percent of our entire GDP.

Now that the baby is born, we'll see about development, fingers crossed for the better sooner rather than later, but let's be sure not to "throw the baby out with the bathwater" in the meantime!

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Originally Posted by Tall Traveler

Great point, you never know when you're going to be blindsided by fate and bad luck....glad you have recovered. But we need a health care system much better than what we have with the Unaffordable Care Act.

Yes, a great point and glad for the recovery as well, much like my brother-in-law who recovered from blood cancer in his early thirties. Nobody can know who is next or pay those sorts of medical expenses on their own.

As for throwing the ACA under the bus..., when was the last time any of us could look back and say our health care costs and/or health care system in America was costing us less last year as compared to this year? As now the ACA also contends with runaway medical costs and all the rest of the same problems, we need to be careful -- at least fair -- about blaming the ACA, especially at the start, given the fundamental problems we face regardless whether the ACA had become law or not.