"Obamacare confession."

[pnwmom]

73. I'm very sorry for your boyfriend but his situation has NOTHING to do with ACA.

Based on his income, under the ACA he will be available for Medicaid in 2014, unless your state is one of the ones with Republican governors who turned the funding down.

And under ACA no insurers will be able to turn people down or charge them extra because of preexisting conditions.

The REALITY is that it's the Rethug/libertarians who insisted on a delay for all of the ACA taking effect till 2014, and it's Rethugs/libertarians who are preventing large expansions of Medicaid in other states. So if your libertarian boyfriend wants to blame anyone, he might have to look in the mirror.

http://mn.gov/health-reform/images/TaskForce-2012-09-06-ACA_and_Medicaid_Expansion.pdf

The Affordable Care Act gives Minnesota the opportunity to expand MA eligibility and extend better health care coverage to more people in need. Beginning in 2014:
 Individuals under age 65 who earn up to 133% FPL, or about $14,859 per year for a single adult, could be eligible for Medicaid, beginning in 2014. This means an additional 57,000 Minnesotans would be enrolled in Medicaid by 2016.
 Enrolling in and staying on MA will be simpler and faster through the new health insurance exchange and changes under the ACA, including elimination of the asset test for parents and a streamlined application process.
 Medicaid generally provides a more comprehensive set of health care benefits for adults compared to MinnesotaCare.
For individuals up to 400% FPL that are not eligible for MA, tax credits may be available to help buy commercial insurance in the health insurance exchange.