I do agree with you on not wanting Medicaid for all. I thought that the Affordable Care Act worked really well - at least for me after my divorce. I couldn't afford to pay $800+ COBRA to keep my health insurance immediately after my divorce and several months later when I started getting maintenance from my ex I went to get health insurance but was turned away because of a pre-existing condition - I had Thyroid Cancer 10 years earlier. I went 3 years without health insurance and then Obamacare passed. My ex and I were in the 38% tax bracket at the time and I had been a stay at home Mom for a good 15 years at that point after having worked at our local University in IT and having taught an IT class. One of my bigger regrets is not having continued to work even part time. I was hired back at that University 4 1/2 years ago and love my health insurance. My work pays over $1,000 a month for me. I pay $50 a month for dental and vision. I believe everyone should have access to great, affordable healthcare - I just don't want to lose what I have now. I love Bernie but don't agree with all that he says. Free stuff for everyone is not what I'm about. If you're able bodied and mentally capable you should work. My God, they're letting crops rot because they don't have enough immigrants to do the labor, Americans are ridiculous. I know you have a son with Autism and I have a daughter with a Non-Verbal Learning disorder. My daughter even after being deemed fully disabled by the state of CO went out and got a job. I'm assuming that your son either works or will work too.
I don't care too much what they do, but I am with you. I don't want to be part of it.
I had to go on cobra when the recession hit and it was 1200 a month. BC/BS would have covered all of us except they refused to cover my son for about $500 a month, so that wasn't an option for us. We had to go on cobra.
We are gonna get him disability ... gonna probably nite a lawyer to just deal with it. He has documented disability since he was a one year old ... state of IL was really good and we had multiple therapist coming out to our home every week to work with him. <<< that sort of thing I support and not just cause of my kid. He has a social worker advocate who we meet with too ... she works with the school and he part of his diploma is working. I have been pretty impressed with everything and the options the state offers. They said they almost always decline disability the first time ... so we may have to appeal. He will get it though without a doubt.
We'll see if he works. That's the goal. He really wants to work with trains and I guess someone with his class interned for Norfolk Southern and then got a job working for them. So I guess they are supportive. Like seriously he is obsessed with working for a train company and has been for years and years. Really that's what he needs cause if it's something he is interested in he is super focused. We'll see.