ACA significantly impacted my life and the lives of others around me. My friends in medical school were able to purchase health insurance to cover the 2 months

ACA significantly impacted my life and the lives of others around me. My friends in medical school were able to purchase health insurance to cover the 2 months between graduation and starting residency. Graduating from school doesn't make you eligible for COBRA. The ones with pre-existing conditions would not have been able to obtain meaningful health insurance for that gap period otherwise. I'm grateful that the ACA made meaningful steps to solving that problem. I still want us to do better. But the accomplishment of the ACA has been the difference between having health insurance and worrying about catastrophic medical debt because of an 8 week in-between period when you're unattached to a large institution.