I have a significant portfolio that’s performing nicely.
If you really want out of EM and onto a subsidized exchange policy, just take some profits (but not TOO much) and enroll in the exchange by March. Capital gains ARE counted (IRS rules).
But that's just it. I can have a fully state paid policy like Medicaid, or the alternative is a partially (or mostly) subsidized private policy... What, really, is the difference from a dependency point of view? The subsidy amount is probably about the same either way. And to think that I just last month had a policy of my own, with no subsidy, that was half the price of a similar blue cross policy now.
I am angry about this. I didn't even take unemployment when I was let go from my last job, even though I was eligible. I just couldn't do it. I can't take money from a program I don't believe should exist. Now I'm stuck being forced onto a welfare program against my will. I suppose one play would be to just drop insurance entirely and wait until I need healthcare. Since insurance companies are required now to accept pre-existing conditions I could just buy a policy then. But that too is taking unfair advantage of the coercive power of government. There's no way out that I've seen.
The only way out of an ambush is through it. I think the time has come to just bring the system down.