Ye gods, If I hear one more allegedly thinking person whine about how Obamacare is such a disaster one more time I will hit them with Feisty Pants' suction machine.   CTFD, people.  I have seen the most ridiculous crap - people are using the ACA as an excuse to do horrendous things. That does not make it the fault of the ACA or the government in any way shape or form. I know of someone whose insurance premiums were raised BEFORE the ACA was EVER VOTED ON OR SIGNED INTO LAW.  The company claimed it was because of the ACA.  Really, do they have a TARDIS?  Are their insurance rates immune to the time-space continuum?  Are their employees wizards?  How does that work exactly?

                Now, companies are whining and complaining that they have to provide insurance to their employees.  So what?!? I would like to point two things. One- in a capitalist economy, capital is NOT sacred.  That is why its meant to be available to anyone who is willing to work for it.  Only socialists and oligarchs think that capital is sacred. A socialist believes it to be sacred and therefore should be held in trust by the state for all of us to share.  Oligarchs believe it to be  so sacred only a few should allowed to place their hands upon it ever.  (And betcha can't guess which few) Which are you?   And- two-  so what if it is an expense for you?  What's next? Should we abolish wages and other operating expenses just for you?  Some executives more and more remind me of spoiled teenagers- they want all the privileges and power of adulthood but none of the responsibility- like obeying the law and paying their fair share.  And by fair share, I mean living wages and taxes, dammit.     

                  I'm not saying it's perfect. It's not. Perfect would be a good single payer system where everyone rich or poor had equal access to health care.  But it does do this.  It gets rid of pre-existing conditions as an instrument of unfairness, a weapon used to keep the poor in poverty.  It means children like my daughter will not be doomed to having to spend the their entire lives as either rich or - and this is more likely- poor.    Because a preexisting condition is not simply an added expense, it some cases it is a lifetime sentence.  Many people need their medical care simply to continue to live.  Not to live better, not to live longer- but to sustain life at all.  And not always the people you think. Many people walk around daily because of medical intervention that keeps them that way. And when they don't have it, they will die.  So many have to either find a way to pay exorbitant, no I think a better word would be extortionate rates for this care or stay poor enough to get help with their insurance.  Disallowing pre-existing conditions means my child will have a more level playing field. One where she will succeed or fail because of her efforts and her talents and her ambitions maybe even blind luck.  But she will not succeed or fail because she has to take into account whether or not she will be able to afford yet another round of antibiotics or a new suction machine or whether she has to give up and move into a nursing home because she cannot afford an aide to help stay at home or get to college or go to work.  This gives my child a much better chance at a whole complete independent life.  And I would be a horrible parent if I didn't fight tooth and nail any thoughtless bastard who wants to take that away from her.