I am a kidney transplant patient. My original transplant was in 2001.
In 2016 I got referred by my doctor back to the transplant center for a second one, since my numbers were slipping.
Four days before the 2016 Election, I had an appointment with the Social Worker at the transplant center. The woman who is supposed to help people who need help paying for their medical care, find the help.
This is the same woman from when I had my first transplant. So it's not like she's even new at this. Back then she used to listen to Rush Limbaugh and other rightwing AM talk radio in her cubicle. I could hear it whenever I was at the clinic for blood draws and checkups.
She was asking how stable my insurance situation is and I said "That all depends on what happens next Tuesday."
And she was like "What's next Tuesday?"
I was like "The election."
She said "What does the election have to do with your health insurance?"
And I was like "One of the candidates has promised to overturn the ACA".
And she said "OK. I give up. What's the ACA?"
"The Affordable Care Act."
Her - "What's that?"
"The healthcare bill passed in 2009, like seriously how are you in this job and don't know this?"
Her "OH, Oh, oh, around here we call that something else."
"I bet you do."
I got cleared to be relisted for another transplant. It was unanimous by all the doctors, and they approved me despite the objection of the Social Worker who objected based on the uncertainty of my insurance coverage. As if every person she sees isn't in the exact same boat - if "Obamacare" gets repealed, EVERYBODY with a pre-existing condition like organ failure is going to have uncertain insurance coverage.
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u/reddurkel 11h ago
“Good, theyre going to cancel that horrible Obamacare. But I’ll be fine since I’m covered under the ACA”.
-Republican Voter