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In reply to the discussion: Finally got my Health Insurance. The Affordable Care Act isn't that good. [View all]pnwmom
(108,977 posts)for a very good policy than he does now through COBRA.
It was already a great change for the millions of young people like him who could stay on their parents' through the age of 25, whether or not they were in college. But now that's he's aged out of that, he'll still get excellent insurance thanks to the ACA.
And babies in intensive care units are no longer excluded from coverage based on pre-existing conditions.
And people with coverage can no longer be dropped when they develop expensive illnesses. And people won't hit annual or lifetime limits that won't even cover the cost of one major car accident.
These are ALL major improvements in the lives of almost all Americans, since employers will have to provide coverage providing the Essential benefits, too. The main group that won't get new benefits is people on Medicare.