[nfb-talk] Get Cancer Now, Before Congress Cuts Your Insurance

[Jack Heim]

Below is a link to another op-ed piece from the NYT. This one is from a 
person who has spent most of his working life in health care 
administration. It's easy to forget that the system already had huge 
problems before the ACA was passed. One could argue that the ACA failed 
to fix these problems but all that means is that we need to strengthen 
the ACA, improve it. Not repeal it. A quote from the piece that I think 
is important:

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Thanks to the A.C.A., I began buying my insurance through my state’s 
health care exchange website. Like the healthcare.gov site, it had a 
rocky start and was widely panned, but I loved it. It was an actual 
marketplace and not a shadowy industry where brokers and H.R. 
departments hammered out deals. I had several insurers offering me 
coverage, with transparent plan information and pricing. It was almost 
as if they were competing. And still, I worried. With this new 
transparency, people would see the blemishes in the industry. What would 
they blame for these flaws, the new law or the system it was designed to 
repair?
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/opinion/obamacare-cancer-pre-existing-conditions.html

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Jack Heim, john at johnheim.com
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Jack Heim, john at johnheim.com