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.
This song is haunting, although not directly applicable to my personal experience.
There's an interesting semi-parallel in Revelation 7:17 and 8:1:
"...and God shall wipe all tears from their eyes. And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour."
Some years back there were some public comments from famous authors about the Susan in the Narnia books not being present for the Final Battle and what followed. It was framed as bigotry against women and people of average morals.
Neil Gaiman's came in the form of a short story, "The Problem of Susan," which from an excerpt I found is apparently quite vile.
Gaiman has fallen out of public favor as allegations against him have begun to surface.
Two other authors were J. K. Rowling, who ought to know better, and Phillip Pullman, who also writes vile stories, I've been told.
Pastor Douglas Wilson has a lucid, sensitive, and rather long rebuttal to the Problem of Susan; link below.
My own, lesser contribution here, is that C. S. Lewis was a fan of George MacDonald, and MacDonald wrote some vivid portrayals of spiritual devolution. In The Princess and Curdie, Curdie was given the ability to discern which beast a person's moral character was descending into by holding their hand. In ...
