Having now gone through all the official information, it turns out to be true that my household makes a little over a thousand dollars too much to get any assistance getting health insurance (and thus the potential for actual health care), so unless the cost of health insurance drops, there will continue to be only one human in this household who has health insurance … and we will be paying a tax penalty which will not only not assist in getting health insurance but also suck up money I might need to use for getting medical attention. Thus, my life will go on as it always has, just as I said it would, except I get to pay the government for, well, nothing at all. This won’t be the first time, and likely not the last.

Congress, you’ve got a few years for this to all sort out and to prove you are not screwing me and people like me over. I’ve fallen over the cliff of skepticism and into an ocean of cynicism. This particular instance of reform isn’t going to help me and may very well end up hurting me in the long run. I simply can’t see the cost of insurance dropping too dramatically in the next couple of years –or our household income increasing too dramatically either. Hopefully, I will be pleasantly surprised, but I doubt it.

So yes, once again, pardon me if I’m not especially thrilled with the reform bill. It’s just going to be one more thing, like school taxes, that I end up handing the government money for without seeing any direct and personal benefit.