Obama administration quietly approves new Obamacare loophole benefiting insurance companies.

[davidthegnome]

165. Greed, money, politics...

I don't know about the rest of you, but this sure isn't what I voted for.

This last year I've been working my butt off to try to get out from under some debt, maybe think about going back to school some day. It's all rather funny, in a sad, twisted sort of way. Eight dollars an hour pays for the car and for dinner most nights, but it doesn't pay for much else. Most of the plans under Obama-care have such high deductibles (to me, at least) that I just kind of chuckle at the irony when I look at them. I wanted health insurance, well, now I've got it... just can't afford to use it.

Granted, 500 bucks isn't a lot of money for some people. For some people, 5,000 isn't a lot, for me, either number is beyond my means. I can't afford to put away more than 20 bucks a week for my son to (hopefully) go to college one day. Debt collectors from student loan companies and collection agencies holding my medical debt are sending me all sorts of love notes. It's laugh or cry. I'd rather laugh at the absurdity of it all.

If I get sick, I will not go to a hospital - I can't afford it and I refuse to let my family bankrupt themselves paying for my care. So in the event that I get some sort of serious illness, I'll do what I can to manage it myself, failing that, I suppose I'll die quietly.

I don't really blame Obama, but I do laugh at the idealistic naivete I used to cling to. That this administration, this brave man with the audacity to hope, was going to fix things. Frankly, I think they're beyond fixing.

Too much money, too much power in the hands of the very few - and the rest of us are too tired from working to pay for their corporate welfare, working for the very same people our tax dollars benefit the most.

I'm overworked and underpaid - which is the same sad story that most of us have. We're not going to get single payer, or an increase to the minimum wage, or any of the things we want, until enough of us get angry enough to stand up to the rich pricks who have everything. This little policy here? This little loophole? I expect that it's a sign of things to come. They're not going to stop until we're all working 80 hours a week without benefits, until none of us can retire anymore, and are forced to work for them until we die.

I'm tired of voting for rich people and working for rich people. When we give them what they want, they squeeze even harder.