This is a fine piece of reporting. Of four people in the lower middle class, one got a full-time job with benefits during the past four years and, thereby, get health insurance. One, a young man, was employed for a while, but is now back unemployed. Like many other young men and women in society, he’s not getting on with life. No job. No family. A this, a middle-aged man, works construction and continues to obtain health care through charity or semi-charity organizations. I’m not sure he was ever without health care. He was simply taking his chances. “Gaming the system,” as the Obamanoids would say. He still is. Buying insurance is now even more expansive. The final person was middle-aged four years ago and is now nearing retirement age. She and her husband piece together income and insurance through a variety of means other than full-time work. She’s on partial disability because of back problems, and he has something going on being a veteran. I’m not questioning their conditions. But, if we had a vibrant economy, with full-time jobs with benefits, many people in situations like this would find it profitable to rely on work rather than programs. Obamacare didn’t help them either. So, out of four, one solved her lack of insurance problem on her own, by getting a full-time job with benefits, and three are in the same situation only older.
I agree. If there were jobs, this problem would be solved.