Ezekiel 4:12-15 applies:

’Eat the food as you would a loaf of barley bread; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement for fuel.’ ... I said, ‘Not so, Sovereign Lord! I have never defiled myself.’ ‘Very well,’ he said, ‘I will let you bake your bread over cow dung instead of human excrement.’

We could be dealing with worse shit, however shit remains shit.

Isn’t this a take on fuels for the sacrificial/temple fire?

No, it's not. The prophet is with the Jewish exiles in Babylon and is enacting the siege of Jerusalem. Food, water and fuel are running short in Jerusalem, and he plays out what it looks like.

Cow dung is actually a great biofuel.

> All of this was true pre-ACA, but worse (in my family's case, much worse; we went bankrupt over $90k in medical bills back in the 2000s). As it was, the thing barely passed.

Sorry to hear that.

One of the massive negative side-effects of ACA will come to the national forefront in a few years. We now have tens of millions of people enrolled in Medicaid. What most don't understand is that, after 55 years of age, this isn't insurance at all, it's a loan you are required, by law, to repay.

Don't take it from me, here's a summary directly from the Medicaid website:

https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/eligibility/estate-recover...

I looked into this a while back. The State can place liens on your estate and your children could be stuck with a bill because of that. For example, if you have a home it is very likely that 100% of the value of your home will be consumed by your healthcare bills if you needed what I am going to call a normal level of care for that age group from 55 onwards.

In other words:

People were told they they were getting health insurance through Obamacare. In reality, they agreed to receive a credit card using their estate as collateral. If this isn't fraud, I just don't know what is.

Obamacare might just be the largest private-property grab by any government in the history of this nation, if not humanity. I wonder how many people actually understand they will not be able to leave anything to their children. Or worse, leave them a huge bill owed to the State.

These are the things that really rattle me: Politicians selling pushing programs in the most dishonest ways possible. How many people would have supported ACA had they were told they would have to sign-over their estate to pay for their after-55 medical bills? Very few, if any.

What really sucks about this is it affects the low to middle class portion of the population in a disproportionate manner. They are the ones who end-up on a Medicaid plan, not people who can afford to pay for something else. Once again, politicians claim to be for the little guy and, instead, they royally shaft them every time they are able to. All they care about is their votes.

I'd rather have to do a little estate planning in my 50s than not make it there because I was uninsured in my 30s. The nursing home thing is very, very well known, you can plan ahead to avoid it, and most of the folks poor enough to benefit from Medicaid expansion weren't going to pass down much anyways.

Medicaid expansion is also just one portion of the ACA.