[Alberta's Child]

One of the challenges in repealing Obamacare is that its strongest critics fall into a pretty narrow demographic group in the U.S. Without even reading the full article I can tell you that most of the people quoted in it who are pushing for the repeal are in the 50-65 age range and are either self-employed or wealthy early retirees. These are the people who are paying the most ridiculous costs for insurance under Obamacare.

[detsaoT]

Self-employed is the only qualifier that counts. A family plan that used to cost me $300 a year is over $1,500 today. But that doesn't piss me off as much as the "open enrollment period" lockout that prevents me from changing my insurance companies at any point that I feel they no longer serve me. Like when my doctors stopped accepting their plans.

Of course, my current provider just announced they're ending their business in Virginia, so I'm down to just one option left. In one of the wealthiest bubbles in the entire country.

The issue of course arises in the fact that very few Americans bother trying to be self-employed any longer due to the tax and paperwork burden that governments at all levels place on us. It's much easier to just go Galt and work a 9-5 job getting W-2 income at this point.