Being offered government subsidies is an insult to us.
We have worked and in our late 50s, we have never even applied for unemployment insurance a single time in our lives.
Agreed. The premiums now available from ObamaCare are so high that few can afford them, even for the POS Bronze Plan, forcing most (like my family) to accept the subsidies. The “Christian alternatives” we checked on advertise coverage for most families at under $300 / month, but even for a family of 3, again, the “coverage” vs. premiums is just awful. If all family members are “healthy” and you choose what amounts to paying the 1st $10k / year yourself, then you can get the premium a little under $300 / month. I’d just about rather shoot myself than take a subsidy, but I have a family to support including a daughter with medical problems (mostly ok now, but could flare up at any time), so, there’s no good choice...
The root problem, of course, is that instead of decreasing actual health care costs, ObamaCare just furthers the gov’t driving them through the roof.