• mholiv@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    You write a lot of stuff that I don’t think is relevant here. I’ll just say that while the ACA was problematic (ie the public option was stripped out) it did meaningfully improve people’s lives.

    Before the ACA pre existing conditions exemptions were a thing. If you find out that you have cancer you suddenly can not switch health insurance providers because they would say that your cancer was pre existing condition that would be excluded.

    When your health insurance is tired to your job this results in literal work here or die of cancer entrapments.

    That and things like mandatory mental health coverage are some of the things that improved peoples lives.

    If you are too young to remember the situation with healthcare in the USA before the ACA that’s fine. But the ACA was a godsend for people. It’s not perfect but it undeniably helped the most vulnerable people.

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      18 days ago

      This is a long post and I’m not going to read it

      I’m sorry for using so many words.

      Edit: they changed the above post to no longer have this quote.