Another Industry Employees fall prey to Affordable Care Act.

Did you have your own health insurance?

 

I am a full time employee now, but for the 8 or so years I was a contract worker no, I didn't have health insurance.

 

Possibly true.

Correct. But you can force the business to offer health care regardless. Or nationalize...

 

May I ask why? Also did you know then that as a self-employed contractor you could deduct your health insurance premiums?

My point is that someone like you was part of the problem with the previous situation with health care. You were working but had no insurance and if you got sick or injured you would still be able to get emergency care which would most likely end up bankrupting you but what you couldn't cover directly would be shifted onto other patients, charity and / or the government.

 

I'm sure he was like all other uninsureds who never get sick!

 

This entire line of comment began with one of the more childish, meaningless, silly statements I have seen regarding taxes...

...which appeared to be a philosophical statement regarding taxes. Given that I have seen many of your political persuasion claim that "taxes are theft," along with the idiocy quoted above, I would hope that you could see why I started with countering philosophical statements regarding society's need for taxes.

As far as the tax rates, we are at historically low levels, which has directly led to historically high levels of debt because of the incredible deficits that we started running after Reagan started the "starve the beast" tax cutting strategy. I would argue we need to correct this imbalance in order to eliminate the deficit and begin paying down the debt. These goals cannot be met with spending cuts alone.

 

Not my quote. You should probably fix that GR to:

 

If a company used to employ 1 person at 40 hrs / week and now will employ 2 people at 20 hrs / week, then there will be twice as many jobs. People can work two 20 hr jobs or many unemployed people will now be employed. At the end of the day, the same number of hours are being worked.

Do you know how much the subsidies are and how they work? Businesses complain because they write the checks, but employees don't complain about losing hours or having to buy insurance? interesting.

 

Fixed. You then replied to my reply to that one, which leads to my comment about philosophical arguments.