Greenwald, Cole, W R Pitt, ...go on down the line

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36. I still have mixed feelings about the ACA

even though it saved me over $3,000 this year.

It probably would have saved me (and the taxpayers) more if my state had expanded medicaid. At least I think that with medicaid, the state would only have paid for my health CARE this year, which was only about $200 - one flu shot, one office visit, and one prescrip for amoxicillin. Instead the state is paying a $330 a month subsidy to an insurance company and I am paying the other $42 a month. (actually I am paying $72 a month but presumably will get some of that back when (if) I file my taxes next year.)

But my premiums went up by over 50% this year. So, as it turns out, did the subsidy, but dang that is ridiculous cost increase and I feel kinda bad about soaking the taxpayers for $6,000. (I did not feel so bad about this year because the alternative (insurance from work) would have cost the taxpayers even more (because I work for a local government).

Also I plan to meet with a friend on Tuesday to see about his health insurance. He is being threatened with a $1,300 fine from the ACA, claims that he could not find affordable care last year (and paid a smaller fine). So I will see how that works out for him.

Gotta say too, as a quasi-leftist, that I have never cared for the Clintons. Nor have I been all that happy with Obama. I really did NOT want Hillary to be the nominee. Not at all, but I saw Bernie as suicide for the Democratic Party, and our party does not really have a lot of progressive alternatives to Hillary, or anyone who would beat her in a primary.

Anyway, I understand why the left might hate her, since I feel that way myself, but she beat the alternatives and dammit we need to win more Congressional elections too.