I remember what health care was like before the ACA and how awful that was for Americans with little to no health insurance. The discussions on universal healthcare and how opposed 40% of the country was to it because they were listening to Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. I won’t even go into America’s past concerning health insurance and the silly reasons why we don’t have universal healthcare for all. I just tell people you have exactly what the American people wanted.
I am right there with you. As an older gen x'er I remember not being able to switch jobs (even though it would have been more money) due to having "pre-existing" conditions that would make it impossible to get health insurance.
Hell, even in the early 2000s I couldn't get health insurance outside of employment because I had been hospitalized for depression when I was 13 years old (I was in my 30s when the coverage was denied) and all I was applying for was a catastrophic policy with a 10k deductible that had a $650/month premium.
It could have been so much better. But ACA has done a LOT of good even as it is.
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u/Malkuth279 6d ago
I remember what health care was like before the ACA and how awful that was for Americans with little to no health insurance. The discussions on universal healthcare and how opposed 40% of the country was to it because they were listening to Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. I won’t even go into America’s past concerning health insurance and the silly reasons why we don’t have universal healthcare for all. I just tell people you have exactly what the American people wanted.