04-17-2019, 12:21 PM
(04-17-2019, 12:15 PM)Devils Advocate Wrote: Stats are like bikinis. They show everything but nothing at all. Wages are at best stagnate, while the cost of living rises. Unemployment stats are misleading.
Lol. Some people are struggling?
Mind if I ask what you do for a living ... white collar or blue collar? Married ... kids?
...you have provided nothing but anecdotal stories and such. You can hate stats but they are more objective than you who obviously based on your talk of trying to avoid paying the penalty have more of an emotional stake in this. I can empathize that your specific situation may be tough, but I look at this from a macro level and the cost of healthcare will only continue to sky rocket if medical debt gets written off at the rate it does.
I am white collar married with a child. I grew up with parents who were blue collar married with four kids. We grew up poor, but we always had health insurance because my parents felt strongly that our debts were our debts and so it was important we were insulated from potential life altering debts such as large medical bills.
