My words regarding the new Affordable Care Act law are probably wasted on those who benefit greatly from it. Little is said against its lunacy, only rhetoric.

How does anyone rationalize this conundrum of poorly managed and confusing mish-mash that even Congress itself doesn’t fully understand or is able to coherently explain to its constituents? They can’t even tell you everything that is in the law, because they haven’t read it.

I was told that senators and congressional members signed up for the ACA. They made a token gesture by signing up for insurance when they already have the best insurance money can buy and have exempted themselves from having to participate in the new law. Now, they intend on punishing folks who can’t afford the ACA. I should be able to opt out without being penalized.

Punishing folks who cannot afford insurance is akin to asking people to breathe underwater without the proper equipment. It makes no sense at all. As if a penalty would encourage me or anyone else to forgo eating, buying needed medications or heating homes in order to buy artificially overpriced insurance.

The insurance companies are wallowing in our forced-to-be-insured status and are laughing all the way to the bank. All the while I, and many like me are on a pay-as-you-go, cash-only payment plan. I don’t think it meets the “straight-faced test.”

After all the taxes are removed from my payroll, I end up not having enough resources to afford insurance. Not that I don’t want insurance, but, because insurance is so astronomically and artificially high that is now a luxury item in my household.

Charles Ferguson

Windsor