June 29, 2012
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Obamacare
One of the areas that Obamacare has affected my family is the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act (SAFRA). SAFRA made the federal government the only lender of student loans and cut out private lenders from the process. It made it more difficult for my daughter to get a student loan. I know one individual that had to quit college because he couldn’t obtain a student loan. I personally think this is dangerous. How long will it take for someone to make a point that it’s against the separation of church and state for the government to give student loans to religious school students?
How do you think Obamacare will affect you or has affected you?
Comments (5)
Sounds like the USA is just becoming more like Canada in that aspect.
All the student loans come from the Provincial and Federal governments and you can use it to go to any school you’d like. But you also have the option to use a student line of credit from a bank. All of which has a good low interest rate.
And as a Canadian, I like my universal health care, so we know where I stand on that part of ObamaCare.
We have several orthopedic companies in town. Everyone who works for them is worried. My husband and I have a Medicare Advantage plan. We don’t know yet how it will affect us. We’ve heard that it will not be good.
A minor correction, the SAFRA eliminated federally subsidized private loans. Private institutions can and still do offer student loans that are not federally subsidized. Go to any major banks website and look under the loans section and you will probably see an option for student loans. The savings from the removal of the subsidization are supposed to be applied to expanded federal loans (I haven’t researched if that actually occurred, but it is the intent of the law.)
Older daughter and her husband run a small business. They had three employees before this president. When Obamacare came along and they were told they had to provide healthcare or else, they had to let the employees go and run the business by themselves. They don’t make enough money to have their own healthcare let alone someone elses. There are weeks when they wouldn’t take a paycheck to run the business. Right now they are hanging on by a thread and don’t know which way to turn.
It is in the government’s best interest to kill religious education.
People who have never been taught right and wrong according to God will accept the government’s version of right and wrong, which is immorality.
Just look at all the people arguing for handouts (money that other people earned but was stolen by the government in order to buy votes).