Why the Gruber tapes are so damaging to democrats and

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42. oh, woo me, there you go gumming up the works with facts

I never supported ACA. Insurance is not health care. Never has been and never will be. Insurance companies take your money in exchange for zero, zip, nada.

I've have been, and continue to be, excoriated here for not supporting ACA. I don't care. The people who claim I want to take away the sick person's health care don't understand that they seem to want me living in the street to pay for somebody else's health care.

What I found most stunning -- and shows how incredibly out of touch some people are -- was the DUer who bragged about how ACA cut his health insurance costs by $20,000.

That year I barely made $20,000. And I know there are plenty on this board and elsewhere making less than that. And there was a DUer who clearly makes a *lot* of money to be saving more money on health insurance than we earn bragging because we will be forced to subsiding his savings.

I will pay the penalty this year. I will pay the penalty next year. Actually, now that I have read that the penalty is only imposed by withholding tax returns, and not in any other way, and I won't have a tax return because my per diem health care delivery job doesn't withhold my federal taxes so I end up owing...I won't even have to worry about the penalty for not paying the penalty. So I may simply not pay the penalty, after all

In which case I, personally, become neutral on ACA because I can still remain outside the scam that health insurance is.