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In reply to the discussion: I strongly support President Obama [View all]Californeeway
(97 posts)I also will be ensured for the first time since grew out of my parent's insurance policy.
Btw I have ongoing health issues that have not been properly treated because I am uninsured and can't afford to pay for it out of pocket.
From what I have read it will cost me about $100 a month to insure both my daughter and I. Very reasonable.
Before the ACA was passed, there was a dark cloud hanging over my family and I for the longest time. I always lived in fear, every time I had an unusually bad stomach cramp or something similar I had to lay awake at night and wonder if I was developing a health problem that would financially destroy me. Now that dark cloud is gone. Obama did that, not you, you tried to get in the way.
I remember reading on this board during the ACA debate self-proclaimed Liberals say that people like me needed to just wait and suffer until we could pass a more ideologically pleasing bill no matter that that might take a generation to do. Getting exactly what they wanted now or nothing was more important to them than the millions of people in my situation or worse who needed help right away. I'll always remember that:
A LOT OF PEOPLE ON THE LEFT WERE MORE WORRIED ABOUT AN IDEOLOGICAL VICTORY THAN ABOUT HELPING PEOPLE WHO DESPERATELY NEEDED HELP.
That's why I don't trust the Left when they criticize Obama. The very people criticizing now are the one's who told my family and millions of others to go fuck ourselves and suffer while you waited for the perfect bill that suited you. Thank God Obama stood with us and ignored you. It was Obama who lifted our asses out the fire, not you.