Thanks To The Affordable Care Act, I’m Officially Covered
Bob Cesca has insurance for the first time since 2005 thanks to the Affordable Care Act. It's time to hear more stories like this.
Via Liberaland:
I’ve told parts of this story before so I’ll mostly skip over the narrative about the why and the how, but since 2005 and for various reasons including a punitively large premium increase, a preexisting condition (back injury) and cash-flow issues due to the Great Recession, I’ve been an unintentional member of the often discussed 30 million uninsured Americans.
For nearly ten years, I’ve been one serious injury or one serious illness away from financial ruin.
It’s not that I didn’t want to be covered. I was simply incapable of being covered. Not long after dropping my small business plan in ...