Quote:What the hell? My wife and I are well north of the poverty level, on an Obamacare plan that's roughly equivalent to what we'd get in the private sector (I'm a 1099 contractor and she's waiting to see what I do before pursuing a job here), and we're paying $550/mo between the two of us, before subsidy.

 

Check the rules on this--I've been out of the ACA game since this past spring--but I believe that if your employer's health plan is not ACA-compliant, you're free to use the exchange with subsidies. If you call the ACA hotline, they're actually pretty good at answering questions in my experience, and the wait times aren't awful if you avoid calling at 8:00 AM, 7:00 PM, etc., the crazy times.

 

I will admit that FBT was right on this one. Obamacare is screwed. It addressed a real problem, yeah, but it did so with an unsustainable model that was too butchered by compromises to last.