Well...my insurance premium is going up by $176.19 a month (and a Thank You)

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104. Last night at work, one of my fellow nurses was grousing

because our insurance premiums are going up and we are losing a number of benefits. She said that she's mad that she has to pay for other people's insurance. I said that it was the hospitals choice to change our benefits and that she has been paying for other peoples benefits for a long time. They've been going to the ER, destroying their own credit but leaving the bills to the taxpayer because they couldn't afford them. I said I suspected this was the first step down the road to universal health care, not really knowing how she (a previous Canadian, would feel). She was still grumbly but did admit I was right on both counts and universal health care is a good thing (she called it socialism but then said it only cost her $2 to have her first baby in Canada, so?).

One thing I've been careful about for some time is calling this ACA rather than Obamacare. When people ask what ACA is, I say it's the Affordable Care Act. Hard to grump about affordable health care.