More Woes from the Marriage Penelty

Eddie works in a thrift store, and earns just enough to put him a little above the federal poverty limit for a single taxpayer.

One of the people for whom the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was intended, he signed up early in 2014, and received a $680 per month “silver” plan for which he paid only $45 out of pocket.

On Dec. 27, Eddie married Jan, a disabled widow he met at work.


Jan is a few years older than Eddie, collects Social Security, and is covered by Medicare. As part of the process of starting his new life, and encouraged by the sense of economic s
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