ONE guy. One guy who hired me to sub for his band.
We were talking about our ailments... I told him I’m currently unemployed (except for the occaisional band stuff) and don’t have insurance.
He took the occaision to ‘sell’ me on obamacare. He claimed he only pays $28. a month for it. I told him that I checked it out and there’s NO WAY he’s only paying that.
He snickered and explained that, in order to get such a GREAT rate on the BRONZE plan(sheesh), he has ALL of his assets, his business (the band) and everything else in his ‘wifes’ name. Oh, she’s NOT legally his wife by the way...
They’ve been together for over 20 years but not actually married.
Therefore, he has NO income and NO assets.
I had to ask him: If you have to FUDGE your ENTIRE life like that in order to ‘beat’ the system, how good can the ‘system’ be???
And are you telling me that most of America needs to ‘cheat’ for this thing to work???
He was stuck. Reduced to - “aahhh, hell, it works for me!”
Next topic!
Friends of my Wife signed up on Californy Care, aka Obamacare.
According to my Wife, they pay less than $200 for the Bronze Plan (Blue Cross?) and their One Year Old is on Medicaid, which their Pediatrician (a Friend of theirs) accepts.
The Husband is a Self Employed Attorney. The Wife works with him. They have no real Assets. They Rent their Home and the Husband is trying to payoff a ridiculous amount of Student Loans. He is negotiating a settlement of less than 50% of what he actually owes.
When I asked my Wife how their Healthcare Costs could possibly be so low, she said she didn’t know. I wanted to ask the Couple about it, but that would cause a “Disturbance in the Force”. My Political views are not compatible with those folks.