The Affordable Care Act did something very nasty to millions of American families, the "family glitch" that left many families with health insurance that cost much more than Obama's "affordable" level of 9.5% of income, and also left them without access to subsidies.
It was a feature, not a bug, and in either case it was not fixed at the time because it was said to be too costly to the taxpayers.
Now that inflation and high gas prices are forcing many people to cut costs, the Biden administration is considering an executive action or regulatory change to "help" these families, probably by making them finally eligible for subsidies.
For my family, that would run into five digits annually, and it would entrench the big gnarly burr that is Obamacare even deeper into our collective behind.
That's their real goal here.
I would rather have my affordable high-deductible insurance back.
What the government can give, the government can take away, and health insurance is not health care.
A boomer apologizes, albeit without much clarity.
"It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs," Jesus said; Matthew 15:26.
I recently understood that I am spending my life in rebuilding spiritual and practical foundations that had been foolishly undermined by previous generations.
Several months ago I was reading a nonfiction book by Christian author Paul Tournier, and made it about three-quarters of the way through before being drawn away to other things.
When I picked it up this last week and finished reading it, I found references to about a dozen Bible passages that had come up in my daily Bible readings in the interim, mostly obscure Old Testament personages with a variety of afflictions; Tournier was a Swiss doctor famous for connecting his Christianity with his medical practice.
I also read a Christian fiction book this last week: Deadline, by Randy Alcorn. One day, what I read in the book mirrored my morning Bible reading on that same day.
"A work of creation was three-fold, an earthly trinity to match the heavenly; the Creative Idea, timeless and passionate, which is the image of the Father; the Creative Energy, begotten of the idea and working in time, which is the image of the Word; the Creative Power, the meaning of the work and its response in the individual soul, which is the image of the indwelling Spirit."
-- P. D. James, summarizing Dorothy L. Sayers' description
