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In reply to the discussion: I supported the ACA, but my policy that I like is being cancelled because of it. [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)My income allows for some subsidy but my plan cost does not require it under the law so no subsidy which leads directly to the next point, when did we have the discussion about what percentage of gross income is affordable and where are the peer reviewed studies backing up this number?
Affordability in this case is based off a political calculation, rather than an honestly arrived at individual financial one. This is the nonsense that must be dealt with when you want a government dictate but refuse to fund it with taxes and tariffs and instead go for working up a scheme that dictates after tax income be spent based off gross income.
Affordable becomes a murky thing, not some hard line and leads to the zealous demanding a lot of personal information to verify validity under the thin guise of "helping" from folks in no position to do so really as a way to bulky folks into spin control.