Quote Originally Posted by ApatheticNoMore View Post
The advice part was to research the options more (by going on the exchanges, by talking to "navigators", whatever), that's the best possible advice anyone can give unless they are expert in the subject. Do research before catastrophizing. Not because laws or never unfair or because they might not get screwed (because I hold no such grand overarching beliefs about the infinite wisdom of the laws and the government or anything - my worldview doesn't require me to) but merely for the rational reason that nothing can be known with inadequate information!

That laws can be tough to navigate and adequate information difficult to find, I know. The advice was given very early on, I said these exact things, 9 pages on yea discussions turn to politics (and not by me - people post pages and pages of political stuff, making the whole thread about their politics which is always the same rant, and then object when anyone else becomes political in it), but the advise was: do the research. It's the best, most rational advise I know how to give. But then I don't consider my job to be some grand expert on Obamacare dispelling misinformation (my heavens, what would my qualifications be for that? what are anyones? reading some biased propaganda?), that's why I point to places were information might *actually* be found (ie go on the exchanges, talk to the navigators even if they aren't very good, and yea talk to the health insurance company and the employer as well, sure maybe even a CPA or a financial adviser might help although I'm not sure how qualified they are for that either).

Oh, I so agree with this. The rumors that are flying around--I work as a temp, with a lot of other long-term temps and contract workers. We will all be affected by this. I haven't had health insurance in 5 years. I've been to a walk-in clinic once in that time, when I had an abscess in my jaw so painful I couldn't sleep. It cost: $99 for the visit, $89 for the antibiotics (after they figured out a way to give me the same dose for less money--it was going to cost $110) and $11 for the Vicodin. That was pretty much my food budget for the month. Everything else, I've just toughed my way through.

But the rumors that are floating through my workplace are unbelievable. Every night I come home and go on the internet and find out that the latest rumor is false. Sometimes the exact opposite of the rumor is the truth.

Why people are relying on hearsay and gossip instead of getting on the internet or going to the library and reading the newspaper is beyond me. They are making themselves scared and anxious when, for most of them, there is no real reason to do so.