With all the stories about how much low income folks are going to have to pay and the other stories about folks signing up for the ACA are currently rare and resulting in much higher premiums than without, I just could not help but thinking of how this effect abuse and marriage.
We ALL know that if you have less money than you need or previously had the more stressed you are and this is often the #1 cause of domestic disagreements. We all know that as money goes down and disagreements go up, that a larger % of them will get violent.
If the ACA does not work and any significant % of the population has to pay more (even if others pay less), we will likely (more like absolutely) have an increase in domestic violence and divorce. This is on top of the incentives the ACA gives for young people NOT to marry (which I assume most know about, esp those in their 20s), which obviously results in more broken homes in the future.
I think it is important to remember how important it is to make sure the ACA either works or is gone. Since most reports are clear that costs are going up, I think it is important to end the ACA for a number of reasons, the #1 one for me, is to keep those womens' faces from getting beaten in. We cannot stop them from marrying these jerks or living with them, but we can do something about the govt making them even poorer.
We play these games and they have a lasting effect. Just like allowing abortion in the 70s resulted in much lower crime in the late 90s and recently. The mandated decrease in income will result in increases in divorce, abuse and thus potentially more crime in 20 years. It will also encourage a medical class of people like our govt class right now. A privileged group that has less consequences to their actions than the rest of us. All this stuff does is make us, of all things, less equal. Kind of ironic.
