I am old and feeling the need to tell my story-but don't know where to start
I am 58, white and female-living in Kansas. My family came here on covered wagons believe it or not. My story, I think is long. What got me thinking is the latest bad news about the ACA. I am a big supporter of health care reform for a LOT of reasons. I was 43 when I was diagnosed with breast cancer. My struggles with health insurance before that is kind of long winded. My husband had just changed jobs and his latest employer got to where they could no longer afford insurance for its employees, a few had cancer including the owners husband so they dropped her. She bought this policy that actually listed the diseases they would cover, it was a short list. I am self-employed so I went out and bought my own catastrophic policy. Maybe a year later he went to work for a better company that did provide insurance and like a month or two later I went to the doctor because I felt a lump in my armpit. The story actually is much longer, but I think the point is the insurance companies do sell a LOT OF CRAP. I remember reading the policy of the former company, I was shocked-like you better get the diseases on this list or you are up shit creek. These people who are complaining about their insurance changing don't realize what they have is CRAP!! It is not worth paying for. Trust me I'm right, my story actually goes on, to other health issues with my daughter and granddaughter that would probably be too dramatic for a soap opera. People are clueless as to the crappy policies they carry.
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I hope the ACA helps a lot of people like you.
Welcome to DU! 
Insurance companies have become reckless, the same way as mortgage companies became with loans.
And it's taken Obama this long just to begin to clean up both messes.
But both are getting better.
Welcome aboard.
