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70. I danced around my living room when the House passed the ACA

Never thought I would see such a thing in my lifetime. Denying people based on pre-existing conditions? Gone for good! Needing to stay in a job you don't really like just to keep the insurance? OVER! Needing to sign away your home because your father needed emergency surgery? Those days are almost behind us.

The bill didn't have everything I wanted, but damn if it isn't better than the status quo. If you don't think it's better than what we had, I don't see a need to have a discussion since our POV's are polar opposites.

I don't agree with class-tiered systems in principal - for anything - but I'm not going to throw the baby out with the bathwater until something perfect comes along.

BTW - I lived the third example about my father. He was a laborer who couldn't get insurance for our family because no one would sell it to us. He needed emergency surgery, and with the size of the hospital bill, we almost lost our home that he worked so hard to build with his own hands. Even under a bronze plan, his max out of pocket may have been something like $8-$10k on the high end, which is far more manageable than $80 - $100k. And we'll never know, but his condition might have been caught with the preventative care that's part of every plan.

So don't belittle me or the millions that Obamacare is going to help. It's going to change lives, even while you sit in a corner and pout about it.