Jay Zilber has a great rant about the state of health insurance and how it affects a self-employed person such as himself.
[I]nstead of reflexively trotting out the old, weatherbeaten scare-arguments — which have been stripped down to PowerPoint bullet-point summaries and repeated so often that they’ve lost all meaning — I wish some critics of Hillarycare (perhaps now to be rechristened AlCare — “I’ll Care” — get it?) would explain why I’m so much better off paying the equivalent of a stiff tax straight into the United Healthcare Slushfund Lockbox every month, while simultaneously enduring the bureaucratic nightmare required to get a legitimate claim reimbursed under StatusQuoCare, and worrying if that noise I just heard was the Repo Man hauling away my Honda Civic.
Check it out.