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In reply to the discussion: Just got my ACA premium notice for next year [View all]daredtowork
(3,732 posts)I couldn't get Medi-Cal before the ACA: I was seriously mobility impaired, at one point legally blind, and my local medical clinic couldn't refer me to the specialist I needed. Once I was on Medi-Cal, my problems started to be addressed in the right way, and I'm now in a situation where I can look at getting back into the mainstream workforce instead of being benched "on disability" for the rest of my life. I do try to raise some political protest about the ways the system sabotages and undermines me, but I don't deny the one thing that was done right was putting me on Medi-Cal so I could get access to medical specialists and prescription drugs.
I want everyone to have this chance: it boils my blood to see States deny their disabled citizens medicaid because of political power plays. It irks the heck out of me that many of these large insurance bills are the result of power plays as well - attempts to repel people from the ACA.
We need some sort of national, universal health care. I'm not sure whether that's single-payer or "medicare for all" or what, but if we can fund other national things like, say, the military, then we can fund health care.