The flip side of this, is that you couldn't have done this: "I decided to leave my job and get an ACA plan for my family, while trying to bootstrap my company.

The flip side of this, is that you couldn't have done this: "I decided to leave my job and get an ACA plan for my family, while trying to bootstrap my company." Before the ACA, because you couldn't have gotten any health care coverage at all. Thus after the ACA, you had an opportunity that would not have been possible (safely) previously.