I support the ACA. Health insurance and health care economics are complicated. I have a good plan and I pay for it. Before ACA was a glimmer, my older son was diagnosed with a serious chronic but manageable medical condition. A financial counselor told me, with the 14 y-o in the room, that his only chance for continued care would be for his family to financially abandon him at 18 so he could be declared disabled and poor and qualify for Medicaid. A guidance counselor told me, with the 14 y-o in the room, that he would have to follow a career path that guaranteed he would be offered an employer-based plan immediately upon college graduation.
Sure that’s DEPRESSING. It’s also STUPID. The son is now 21 and has SO MUCH to offer this economy. And that’s what this is: An ECONOMIC issue. It would be more expensive for the TAXPAYER for him to be un-covered, covered by Medicaid, abandoned financially by his family, or relying on state-funded crisis care at emergency rooms.
TODAY, the ACA makes him a healthy, hard-working, independent, TAXPAYING, economic engine whose care is dramatically less expensive for everyone because it is well-managed.
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