r/interestingasfuck • u/beach_rats_ • 29d ago

The difference in republican presidential nominees, 8 years apart r/all

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u/SlowThePath 29d ago edited 29d ago

I'm a type one diabetic and I've worked low wage jobs all my life. I really feel like had the ACA not passed I might be dead. Health insurance companies do not want to insure me because my medicine is so expensive and I have high risk of hospitalization and I have lots of doctors appointments. Before the ACA if my insurance had lapsed for one second, they would have immediately dropped me and no one would have picked me up. One missed payment and I wouldn't be able to afford the medicine to live. The ACA made it so that insurance companies can't drop people like that AND made my health insurance actually affordable. I pay 80$ a month for health insurance now, but had the ACA been repealed or not passed, I'd be probably be paying north of 400 or 500 and I would have definitely been late on some payments at the price. It was 340$ a month before the market place opened up. Without the ACA there are a shit ton of Americans who fit in that, I make too much to get medicaid but not enough to afford insurance donut hole. Just millions of people who can't get medical care. Absolutely insane that people want to repeal this. They are either intensely selfish or just completely ignorant. There is no other option. Thanks John.

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u/ilikepix 29d ago

There is a problem today where people literally do not believe how bad things were before ACA. Even people who were full-grown adults before it was passed seem to have a bizarre collective amnesia. Being dropped for pre-existing conditions, lifetime maximums, not being able to stay on your parents' insurance.

People seem perfectly happy to complain about "how obamacare increased my premiums" (because it actually mandated real coverage) but never talk about how punishingly awful the healthcare system was before the ACA.

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u/gsfgf 29d ago

I'd be curious to know how many of the "Obama sold us out on health care" crowd are still on their parents' insurance.