Obamacare: Indentured Servitude
Josh Marshall ■ This is not principally about working to get money to buy insurance. It's needing to operate in a health care insurance system in which the ability to purchase insurance is not only tightly tied to employment in general but in many cases to particular jobs if you have some condition or genetic tendency that makes no one else want to hire/insure you. Let's put the point even more precisely, the issue is the inability of many people to purchase health care coverage at reasonable rates and/or without massive exclusions without a job that allows you to participate in a group health plan. Cutting that chain between employment and access to coverage allows some people to retire early, leave the work force, start their own business, work as an independent contractor. It allows people to make that el dorado thing, rational economic choices. There's nothing wrong with that. Chaining people to particular jobs on the threat of losing access to health care is simply wrong.
Anonymous/Paul Craig Roberts ■ Obamacare: The Final Payment–Raiding the Assets of Low-Income and Poor Americans || The anonymous Obamacare expert, who provided us a year ago with the most complete account of Obamacare available, has returned with an explanation of estate recovery. Obamacare herds the poor into Medicaid which requires some enrollees to forfeit homes and other assets they might have to the state to cover the cost of their medical care. The research article below is meticulous and demonstrates that Obamacare was not enacted to serve the people.