General Discussion

I had the ACA for a couple of years in the beginning. It was a life changer for me. Then I turned 65 and got sucked into managed care for 5 years. But, my daughter who is self employed, as is her husband with type 1 diabetes, got insurance for the first time in his life with the ACA. I was so happy for them, and I felt so vindicated because her husband is a libertarian and thought having no government was the right way to go. He finally had help paying for insulin. But, he is not getting it for $35.00 a month anymore and my daughter has had to pay for preventative things like mammograms and colonoscopy's because they are not honoring the preventative health care part of the law. In the years since the conception of the ACA, it has been severely compromised. If we had universal health care like other countries it could not be so easily degraded. I don't think anyone is saying the Democrats are bad and never accomplished anything. Where would we be without SS and Medicare, Medicaid, the NIH and USAID? We are starting to find out and If we keep letting Republicans win we will find out soon enough what it's like to live without Medicare and Social Security. My god the Southern States are experiencing Jim Crow again. We the people have got to fight harder for those that never experienced the good things some of us have benefitted from.