[detsaoT]

Self-employed is the only qualifier that counts. A family plan that used to cost me $300 a year is over $1,500 today. But that doesn't piss me off as much as the "open enrollment period" lockout that prevents me from changing my insurance companies at any point that I feel they no longer serve me. Like when my doctors stopped accepting their plans.

Of course, my current provider just announced they're ending their business in Virginia, so I'm down to just one option left. In one of the wealthiest bubbles in the entire country.

The issue of course arises in the fact that very few Americans bother trying to be self-employed any longer due to the tax and paperwork burden that governments at all levels place on us. It's much easier to just go Galt and work a 9-5 job getting W-2 income at this point.

[detsaoT]

(meant a month, not a year)

[Alberta's Child]

I was in the exact same situation last year. I got an ObamaCare exemption by joining a religious health care cost-sharing group. For me, “going Galt” would mean pushing to keep ObamaCare in place as-is ... because in my industry I can thrive among competitors who have to operate under ObamaCare’s costly mandates.