Since 2002, I've been a licensed Life and Health agent. For the majority of that time, my focus has been on health insurance for the senior market, Medicare supplements, prescription drug plans. I've spent more than a decade doing my best to match plans to my client's needs and budget. I've worked for years learning all the ins and outs of our private, for-profit healthcare system, dealing with bottlenecks on both the insurance and provider side of the coin as I tried to be an effective advocate for my clients' health.
I have been in the business long enough to see the creation of George W Bush's Medicare Modernization Act and the implementation of Medicare Part D and Medicare Advantage plans. And now I've seen the transition from the Affordable Care Act's rocky early days to the surprisingly popular and robust system that is today. It's from this foundation of professional knowledge and experience which I'd like to address the obstructionist Republicans in Congress and in statehouses across the country, as well as “C” level executives in boardrooms at companies like Aetna, all of which seem to be involved in a coordinated attempt to sabotage the ACA and drag us back to the broken free-for-all which preceded it.
You just don't get it.
The ACA is, at its core, a 30-year-old conservative proposal.
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