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@onwebcam you are being played as a peon by that guy that doesn't want to pay that 3.9% tax. This is the guy who the Congress cares about -- not you. Their *large political donors (and patrons)*
If you cannot afford insurance -- how will you pay for any *catastrophic* medical emergency you or your family may have? Unless you have $50K (really $250K) set aside to differ this expense, you need some form of insurance.
Don't get me wrong -- I understand you are between a rock and a hard place.
You should not have to pay more than 10% of your net business income or aggregate gross wage income for healthcare insurance. It's harder to calculate how employer paid healthcare insurance affects wages --but it does indeed lower wages-- as it is part of the cost of labor (benefits).
You should be able to buy a healthcare insurance policy with the deductible you want, including $10K, $20K, $50K.
It's not really fair for me to pay your medical expense, without healthcare insurance, if you cannot not pay, nor should you pay substantially more than you receive, to subsidize my higher medical costs pain in part with healthcare insurance.
However, what is happening with the Trump/Republican healthcare bill is: that all of us will end up paying for these Medicaid people that get cut off the ''program''.
Unless we refuse them service, when they show up at the hospital ER (in a desperate situation usually), every taxpayer will be getting the bill in one form or another -- including higher hospital prices to make up the losses. These people do not qualify for GA or AFDC (general assistance or aid for dependent families; AKA: Welfare) they get no Medicaid on that basis.
Collectively, we are all going to pay for their healthcare or watch them die in the streets. The heaviest cost burden will fall on the middle income earners -- that's what this dog fight is all about.
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