I will share mine. I was diagnosed with UC around the age of 20 years old. It was very aggressive and got worse and worse with each passing month. I was first on just Asocol(sp) then they added in Azathioprine, then I went on steriods, then when I was on the max of all that I went on Remacaid. That stopped working and I needed Humera. All the while my body was breaking down from all these drugs. But they let me live my life sort of. I could still leave the house. I graduated college and would have been kicked off insurance. I worked three jobs to make ends meet, but none had insurance plans with them. At 24 I decided to perform J-pouch surgery. This was right before the Supreme Court review of the law. I had performed my first surgery and thankfully the court ruled the law was constitutional in the interim before my final surgery to put everything back together. Today I am healthy, happy, I have two kids, I have a job I love, one that I wouldn't have been able to perform before the surgery.

Without the ACA, I would have been kicked off my parents insurance plan. I would have remained sick with no way of getting a job I couldnt perform and I couldnt have gotten insurance because I couldnt get a job. I may have been able to use Medicaid or my state's low income plan as I wouldnt have been able to work. But the wait would have been unbearable and I may have had to start my life far later than I would have liked. With the ACA I remained covered and got the care I needed when the doctors said it was needed. I'm just tired of this system. How did we vote in these shills when we need single payer as a country. I'm fine now. I have insurance through a good job. But what the hell are we doing? Why should health care be provided only if you get a good job?