A Daughter's Plea to the Supreme Court: Let My Parents Keep Their Health Insurance

As a deeply concerned daughter, I write this plea about the upcoming Supreme Court decision in King v. Burwell, which will determine whether my parents are able to keep their badly-needed health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare. This case will decide whether tax credit subsidies will remain available on federal health insurance exchanges or if these subsidies will only be available on state-run exchanges. This means that if you live in one of the 34 states that did not set up its own state exchange and you signed up through a federal exchange, you may lose the federal subsidy you received to afford your health care. Health care has turned into a political issue. Big government vs. small government. Democrat vs. Republican. Conservative vs. Liberal. To my parents, who can't afford health care and live on a disability check, the issue is not political, it is literally a question of life or death. Obamacare opponents are always focused on what evils Obamacare has done to people and how it has destroyed our health care system. Has politics become so polarizing that we can't even admit when a law we don't agree with helps many families? I can't speak for everyone, but I can say that for my family, Obamacare has saved my parents' lives. You see, in June 2013, my family's world was turned upside down. My dad's health severely deteriorated to the point where he became confined to a wheelchair, lost 40 pounds, and required blood tra...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news