Your ride is just like mine. And I agree with your assessments on all points that you have posted in this thread.
Specifically regarding healthcare, joethedrummer recently reminded of the following point and I thought it was very well put, so I quote him in his entirety...
I don’t get any of this...
Obamacare/Trump/Ryancare is NOT healthcare; it is putting a financial GUN to our heads in order to FORCE us to buy INSURANCE.
That’s the bottom line for me.
It’s utter corruption and banana republic tactics.
Government, GET THE HELL OUT OF IT!! PERIOD!!!
I am going to beat this hammer again by saying tax credits for medical expenses is the key. The Feds have no right to force people to spend their money on insurance just like they have no right to force people to pay union dues. With tax credits, we don’t need insurance although that choice should still be available.. If you want insurance buy it, or not. With tax credits billions will be saved by cutting out insurance, cutting out the government bureacrats, cutting out government lawyers, and cutting out politicians. What we have now, is taxpayers being forced to pay for their families, the government bureaucrats, the government lawyers, and Cadillac insurance for able-bodied people who won’t pay a dime. Taxpayers are now also paying the medical expenses of some 20 million illegal aliens.