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Let’s Not Forget: Obamacare Saves Lives

The Affordable Care Act barred insurance companies from denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions and made it possible for 30 million people to get insured.
Let’s Not Forget: Obamacare Saves Lives
By Raju Chebium ·

Never mind the doomsday rhetoric coming from Obamacare’s critics.

Fact is, the Affordable Care Act barred insurance companies from denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions. Obamacare also made it possible for 30 million people to get insured. Bottom line: The law saved lives.

That point was sharply underscored at a recent CNN town hall meeting by a former Republican voter – also a cancer patient and a small business owner – who asked House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., why Congress is rushing to repeal ACA without a replacement in place.

Then Jeff Jeans added: “I want to thank President Obama from the bottom of my heart because I would be dead without the Affordable Care Act."

Like Jeans, numerous others would also be dead if not for Obamacare. Remind the Affordable Care Act’s critics of that critically important fact.

Sign our petition to oppose Obamacare repeal here. Call the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121, ask to be connected to your members of Congress and tell them to leave the law alone. 

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