A very good friend of mine signed up at health care.gov last week.

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87. Yep. My family qualified for MediCal in CA under the Medicaid expansion.

The options under the program are fabulous. We elected to sign up for the Kaiser network to start. You're allowed to change your network every 30 days if you don't like the one you're in. The only expense involved is for prescriptions, which cost a max of $4.

I've been out of work for 3 years. We're living on my wife's part-time income and raiding our retirement funds to get by. Were it not for the ACA, we wouldn't have insurance. Let me repeat that: were it not for the ACA, we wouldn't have insurance. Before this, we were on my wife's COBRA (@ $400 per month) until it expired in September. We went 4 months with no insurance. I checked out the Covered CA website, found we were eligible for the Medicaid expansion as of 1/1/14, and here we are today - covered for medical, dental, vision, meds...everything.

My wife is a cancer survivor. Do you know what we'd be paying for a basic, crap insurance policy - in the individual market, no less - were it not for the ACA?

THAT'S what the ACA has done in states like CA where the governor accepted the FREE FEDERAL MONEY to expand Medicaid.

So, THANK YOU, PRESIDENT OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS!!!

And FUCK YOU, Republicans - ALL Republicans!