Name:   copperline - Subject:   WIZARD WIX Date:   3/9/2015 6:58:37 PM

Well, my neighbor certainly doesn't think this is a simple situation.   It's a financial crisis.   First, selling his home won't be an easy fix... nobody wants to put their property on the market as a 'distressed seller', that's a sure way to lose ground (and capital gains).   Imagine the complications he faces.    How long will he have to wait for a buyer and a price he would want?  Should he invest in another home in Iowa knowing that he will only want to live there 2 years?     Most important is that the home is the one he was preparing to retire in, and has been integral to his retirement planning.   Ultimately, he also has to factor in the incalculable costs of moving away from friends and family...    And, of course, this may not be the last time his job wants him to move.   All in all, he was heading into a good, well planned & secure retirement.... and is now wrestling with the real possibility of financial damage at the worst possible time.

My point is that the ACA is giving him some options he would not have had otherwise, he could use it to continue with his retirement plan and protect his family.   I also wanted to point out that he is suspicious of Obamacare for vague and unexplored reasons, based on loose talk, rumor and supposition.   

I am finding that people who are opposed to the ACA frequently comment that they are in favor of portability, in favor of not excluding people from coverage due to pre-existing conditions, and like the option of keeping family members on policies until age 26 if they wanted to.   They endorse & welcome these changes, but are still strongly opposed to the law that created the changes they support.   That doesn't make much sense to me.

If only a Republican governor had been the author of the same plan.......  and implimented it so that we could see how it worked first.    

To bad people don't remember it like that.