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Re:Affordable Care by cderwin on Friday January 13, 2017 @01:58PM (#13393579)
But that doesn't mean the ACA saved their lives, it means ACA allowed them to continue with their startups rather than find coverage working for any of a plethora of big businesses. That is obviously still a good thing, but to claim that those founders literally would have died without the ACA seems misleading at best.
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Re:Affordable Care by mikeash on Friday January 13, 2017 @02:08PM (#13393699)
Maybe they couldn't get a job with one of those big businesses, due to lack of credentials, or maybe the disease prevented it.

There are thousands of people whose lives were saved by this. Nitpicking over on example seems rather unproductive.

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Re:Affordable Care by yardie on Friday January 13, 2017 @02:26PM (#13393884)
Pre-existing conditions were covered before the ACA?
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Re:Affordable Care by BeetleB on Friday January 13, 2017 @03:51PM (#13394581)
Pre-existing conditions prevented many from getting health care.
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Re:Affordable Care by frozenport on Friday January 13, 2017 @02:14PM (#13393768)
Pre-existing conditions
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