Obamacare, or, I might be up a creek w/o a paddle

[Alan]

Alan, do you have some life time guarantee of health insurance some how? Don't you think it is possible some day you or someone you love, might develop a pre-existing condition, or have some financial catastrophe and need help with health insurance yourself some day?

Don't you feel any empathy or concern for a family working minimum wage jobs without insurance and a child with cancer?

Yes, as I approach my retirement years and worry about the future of my special needs grandson, I feel great concern on a personal level. And on a societial level, I worry about people such as the OP who is now facing increased difficulties as a result of the Affordable Care Act requirements.

I think it's important to remind others, who may revel in the fact that the negatives involved with their life choices have now been mitigated by the increased demands upon their neighbors, that their benefit is someone else's loss. Forced participation in higher cost plans and subsidy dollars forcefully taken from their neighbors have a negative impact on more folks than are rewarded with the result.