FB ACA WTF

[lissaholly]

I have been waiting all day for my one FB friends to comment on the govt. shut down. Extremely conservative and pretty self-righteous.

Let me just set the stage, family of four.  There are two tween age kids, SAHM who is also a student and the father-  he works in oil.  I am not sure the exact position, but I know his formal education ended at high school and there is a picture of him "at work" at night in front of oil rigs.  He is just a silhouette but he appears to be actively working.  They are against the ACA because their family is healthy and they don't want to pay for insurance.  

I am not commenting because the conversation got ugly and went all personal attacks. Mi am just not going down that path, so I am out.  Besides you can't reason with people who think like this!!!

[mrsjuleshs]

If he works in the oil industry, they probably have a pretty awesome benefits package. My dh works for a smaller company in oil and we are extremely grateful that our medical coverage is really cheap compared to a lot of plans out there. My work insurance sucks but they have been doing all they can to come up with cost effective plans for all the employees.

[spitforspat]

Why is "at work" in quotes?

[lissaholly]

They are opting out of coverage. His company offers insurance and he has sent back paperwork saying he doesn't want health insurance and they did the math and they decided it is cheaper to be fined and pay the bills if something should happen. That is very minimally paraphrased.

I quoted "at work" because that is how the picture was labeled. I am in no way miminmizing the work done. I feel like Joey on Friends using bunny ears at all the wrong times.

[spitforspat]

I disagree with their opinion of the ACA.

BUT, sometimes it does financially make sense for people to not have insurance. It's kind of like having an HSA and reallyyyy high deductible insurance.

I feel like you're kind of reaching here.

[lissaholly]

I very well could be reaching. I could be reacting to their repeated use of the term " osamacare" and the laundry list of health problems that the wife listed that she doesn't use as an excuse to live off "sugar daddy" u.s government.

I just don't like the idea of people with kids and working very physical jobs not having health insurance, when they could;(