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The impossibility of full independence

I read an article in the Wall-Street Journal today which has me perplexed to say the least. The article was written by Nicole L. Hopkins and is titled, "ObamaCare Forced Mom Into Medicaid - My mother preferred to pay for her care rather than be on the government dole. Now she has no choice." I'll be curious to see that, if like the other bogus such stories I've read from right-wing news outlets regarding people's new insurance plans, this story is as well, but for the time being, I'll treat it as accurate due to the confusion such stories bring me. One reason I have doubt is the author of the article comes across like a Fox News anchor, as she says this early in her piece: "The unaffordable ObamaCare-compliant plan that her insurer offered in a Sept. 26 letter is not what makes my mother's story noteworthy. Countless individually insured Americans have received such letters; many are seeing more radical increases in premiums and deductibles....