{"id":3277,"date":"2017-09-21T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dbhids.org\/dev\/?p=3277"},"modified":"2022-12-06T15:41:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T15:41:52","slug":"philadelphians-share-their-stories-about-how-the-aca-has-helped-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbhids.org\/dev\/philadelphians-share-their-stories-about-how-the-aca-has-helped-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphians Share Their Stories About How the ACA Has Helped Them"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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By Josh Kruger<\/strong><\/p>

Department of Public Health, Office of the Mayor<\/p>

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More than 200,000 Philadelphians benefit from the Affordable Care Act \u2014 more than 160,000 through the Medicaid expansion and about 60,000 through the ACA\u2019s marketplace.<\/p>

If the ACA is repealed, these people could all lose their health insurance and have no way to pay for medical care.<\/p>

They\u2019re not the only ones who\u2019ll be affected, either. If Congress repeals the ACA, most adults and children in Philadelphia who have private healthcare coverage will lose protections the ACA provides. Protection like no-cost preventive care, coverage of preexisting conditions, and equal coverage of behavioral health issues like addiction.<\/p>

The stakes are high for all of us.<\/p>

We asked Philadelphians to share their stories. Here\u2019s what a few of you had to say.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Hassan Freeman<\/h4>

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\u201cMy youngest son was born with a rare liver disease known as biliary atresia. It\u2019s a sickness where the liver progressively gets worse, ultimately leaving the person in need of a liver transplant. Were it not for the ACA preventing insurance companies from discriminating against those with preexisting conditions, our child would assuredly not be receiving the treatments. These treatments allow him to enjoy the life that all children deserve: growing up and being allowed to pursue what makes him happy.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Audrey Ross<\/h4>

\u201cRight after the election, my husband and I were sitting in a pediatric ER trying to wrap our heads around what he had just heard. A doctor told us our three-and-a-half-month-old baby Jacob\u2019s upper left lung was overinflated, flattening his diaphragm and shifting his heart to the middle of his tiny body. He was placed on oxygen just so he could breathe. During that week, I didn\u2019t care about the election result. I just wanted my little boy to live. Later, Jacob was diagnosed with an extremely rare lung disease and underwent surgery. Now, almost eight months after having a home apnea monitor on for months and another procedure, Jake is moving around like a normal 11-month-old. He still has health challenges we are addressing and sees a gastroenterologist, cardiologist, pulmonologist, and a neurologist \u2014 and I know I\u2019m probably forgetting another specialist somewhere in there. He is not even a year old and he stands to lose his Medicaid coverage under some proposals moving through Congress. We don\u2019t know what his future holds. This is the most terrifying part. Lives are on the line.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Fae Ehsan<\/h4>

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\u201cMy parents moved to this country from India in 1995 to pursue opportunity, so at the age of five I was a young immigrant in America. While my dad was going to school, he also worked at a grocery store to make ends meet. He didn\u2019t get health benefits from his job, so no one in my family had health insurance. Getting it privately would\u2019ve been more expensive than my dad could earn stocking shelves. Unfortunately, I was a pretty sick kid growing up, always getting colds and coughs. One summer, I couldn\u2019t stop coughing and had a steadily rising fever. Since we didn\u2019t have insurance, we didn\u2019t have a primary care doctor, so my mom walked me to an urgent care center. We had to walk because we didn\u2019t have a car. The urgent care center refused to see me without $200 upfront; my mom only had $190. She offered them her wedding ring and the other valuable jewelry she was wearing in exchange for medical care. They refused. Eventually, a relative came by with the extra $10 \u2014 after I had already fainted from the fever in the waiting room while my mother was haggling with the receptionist. Today, my dad works a good job and everyone in our family has health insurance; eventually, I got a job with great health insurance, too. I can see a doctor whenever I want. I want that for all people. I just think of those families starting out like my parents did. What will they do? No mother should have to haggle with healthcare providers to get care for herself or her child. Everyone should have access to care.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Adrianne Gunter<\/h4>

\u201cI suddenly went from being a healthy, happy college senior to being tired all the time. I couldn\u2019t understand things. At first, I thought it was stress. Then, I lost vision in my left eye. That\u2019s when everything came to a screeching halt: I was eventually diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS). Almost instantly, I became unemployed and unemployable. MS is an autoimmune disease that attacks the central nervous system; scars called lesions form in the brain and spinal column. These lesions interfere with nerve receptors, making everything difficult. Right now, at 32 years old, I walk with a cane, but it\u2019s already hard to lift my legs. My hands don\u2019t grip the way they used to, and I need help getting the lids off of jars. When I eat, I have difficulty swallowing. There\u2019s no cure for MS. It\u2019s one of those preexisting, chronic conditions. For two years, I applied for health insurance and was denied four times \u2014 until the Affordable Care Act. It\u2019s only after Governor Tom Wolf signed on to the ACA\u2019s Medicaid expansion that I was finally able to get insurance. While there\u2019s no cure for MS, there are treatments that can help. My first treatment was covered under the Medicaid I received; without coverage, treatments for me would cost thousands per month. I can\u2019t afford that. Right now, I pay a copay of $3 for my treatment thanks to Medicaid, which also covers my doctor\u2019s appointments and the MRIs that track the progression of the disease. It also gives me the peace of mind that, if something unexpected happens like a fall or broken bone, it will be covered and my mother won\u2019t be buried in endless medical bills. I didn\u2019t ask for this disease. I didn\u2019t want it. If I could reach inside myself and rip MS out of me, I would. But I can\u2019t. If Medicaid goes away and the Affordable Care Act is repealed, it\u2019s the same as punishing people like me for being sick.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Katherine Miller<\/h4>

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\u201cI had uterine surgery right before I became too old to stay on my parents\u2019 insurance. My mother\u2019s plan covered the surgery but a few weeks later after I turned 26, her insurance company dropped me. At the time, I couldn\u2019t find full-time work, my part-time job didn\u2019t offer health insurance, and I couldn\u2019t afford any of the plans offered on the healthcare marketplace. I eventually got coverage through Medicaid, only because of the ACA\u2019s Medicaid expansion here in Pennsylvania. After my operations, I needed regular follow-up care, but when I called the doctor I had been with for years, they said they didn\u2019t accept Medicaid patients. This was incredibly upsetting; I had delayed my follow-up care while I obtained healthcare so I could go to the doctor I had been with for years. It was clear that my relationship with them was purely financial \u2014 not a patient-centered one. So, I went to Planned Parenthood. They saw me regardless of what insurance I had \u2014 or didn\u2019t have. I got an appointment right away and continued going there for as long as I was on Medicaid. The whole time, I received top-quality, compassionate care. I was never treated differently there at Planned Parenthood because of my health insurance card. I don\u2019t know what I would\u2019ve done without PP or without Medicaid. I was able to get the care I needed \u2014 care that enabled me to continue going to work and showing up for life. That care helped make it possible for me to get promoted to a full-time position and become eligible for my employer\u2019s health insurance, which meant I no longer needed Medicaid.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Corrie Tice,<\/h4>

Social Services Manager, Mary Howard Health Center \u00a0<\/p>

\u201cI\u2019ve met with countless individuals benefiting from the Medicaid expansion in Pennsylvania. A lot of our patients are older adults and chronically homeless, often due to a combination of mental health and physical conditions, which a lack of housing exacerbates. Though not determined \u2018disabled\u2019 by Social Security, these individuals are unable to find or maintain gainful employment. Even when they do, it\u2019s usually minimum wage work that usually doesn\u2019t offer health benefits or where health benefits are too costly. These are the people \u2014 those on the margins of government benefits and society \u2014 that benefit tremendously from the ACA. They\u2019re able to get their healthcare needs met through the Medicaid expansion, access that then prevents even costlier situations. Before the Medicaid expansion, these were some of the most frequent users of emergency rooms. They relied on ERs for all their healthcare needs and would often only seek care after conditions became dire. Repealing the ACA or cutting Medicaid will bring these individual back into the ER for routine care and mental or behavioral health issues. Not only does cutting Medicaid put their lives at risk but it also overwhelmingly burdens our hospital systems that will again find themselves functioning as primary urgent care centers \u2014 which increases healthcare expenses across the board.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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