Riiiiiiiiight

[neadods]

The government has shut down because it's That Important to delay/stop the mandate that people buy their own health insurance if they don't get it through their employer. Only... I can't work because I'm caught up in the government shut down. I am prevented by the shutdown alone from doing the work that brings in the money to my employer.

Which means, I am informed, that the health care benefits that are deducted from my paycheck will run out. My options are to 1) reimburse my employer for the money that can't be deducted from my nonexistent paycheck or 2) to buy my own insurance via the "Obamacare" exchanges.

In other words, it was more important to shut the government down than to force me to pay for my own health care, except SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE I can't work, I will be forced to pay for my own health care.

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And somehow, according to the infamous "hot mic," it's all the Democrats' fault, for refusing to negotiate. Because after all, it's only a law that Congress has already passed--why bother to enforce it as written?

Bet they wouldn't fuck around with the Patriot Act that way.