To me this is like a section 8 recipient saying what if the hard working taxpayers stop paying my rent?
I would say, get a job and pay your own rent.
Blather.
We have paid for our insurance for thirty years so we beat your twenty-five. We worked, made a lot of money on the side and retired with more money than the other 99%. I could have a job running a program or being a dean at a university if I wanted (solicitations for these positions from school across the country still come regularly), but I have no interest in that. Why should I occupy a job that somebody else who needs the money could have? It’s four years since FIRE, and we have done well, no cracks in our decision showing yet. Just went to look at a college with our daughter yesterday. There was a time when it would have been free for me as a perk of my job, but I gave that up when I decided to quit the rat race. We will not get any financial aid so we’ll be out full price. I’m ok with that. It’s my decision.
For health insurance I want a level playing field in which I can obtain reasonable health insurance like Blue Cross, not Kushner care or a religious association that forces me into some house of superstition, at something approaching reasonable rates, but since I can’t get that thanks to the GOP, I’ll take what I have now, lousy health insurance (still Blue Cross) at exorbitant rates.
Now it annoys me to no end to see people who haven’t saved enough but have FIRE’d on a minimal amount complain about losing their subsidies as that is taking advantage of the system. But this country was founded on life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, not on the need to work.
If you have paid your health insurance all your life and are still paying it, you shouldn’t be denied treatment just because you had a zit three years ago. That’s garbage. And you know what, won’t save you or your family when the dice roll against you. I had a friend who died because she got cancer, she got healthy but it came back, after a while she couldn’t work so eventually she had to go on COBRA, after that ran out, she wound up without health insurance since who insures someone getting cancer treatments. Lots of bills, but money and treatments ran out and that was that. Would she be around if she’d had insurance? Who knows. She’s been gone 15 years now.