Paying the tax penalty and my medical costs out of pocket is still cheaper than purchasing ObamaCare. When you are uninsured, an entirely different world opens up for you. Doctors charge less. Pharmacies charge less. Everyone charges less.
Running around uninsured for the first time in my adult life has not been easy. The tax penalty isn’t cheap (2.5% of your taxable income) and there is the constant uneasy fear of an expensive medical problem, a cancer or car accident, the kind that can bankrupt you.
History has shown, though, that there is almost always a personal price to pay for social change through civil disobedience — a price I’m willing to pay to help break the back of ObamaCare, an immoral and illegitimate government program sold with serial-presidential (and media) lies and enacted into law using one-party procedural tricks.
Like a vast majority of Americans, I was happy with our imperfect health care system prior to the passage of ObamaCare. In-between employer insurance opportunities, I had always purchased an affordable catastrophic plan with a high deductible. It was the best of both worlds — allowing me to pay out of pocket most of my care while enjoying the peace of mind that comes with an emergency insurance policy.
ObamaCare made these wonderful catastrophic policies illegal.
Actually, what ObamaCare did was make these catastrophic plans unaffordable.
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