I don't think the issue is being able to afford so much as it is the complete inability to get insurance with a pre-existing condition. She sounds like a fairly responsible person who payed into a health insurance plan for years...only to be totally thrown out of the system due to circumstances totally beyond her control. There are many aspects of "Obamacare" that I do not think are workable i.e. the 68 year old black homeless person is somehow going to be forced into paying into the "system".....LOL. So to the extent you argue its simply about whites and self-sufficient folks dollars being spread around.....I understand. Having suffered a fairly significant health care episode last year ($500,000+ in medical bills) I am attuned to the "pre-existing" issues in Obamacare as well as the elimination of lifetime family maximums. We need health care reform in this country, but I agree with you that we simply can't do it on a European level because of our underclass that has no intention of participating in any plan other than sapping off whatever system is in place......
I know she is a responsible person but still "naive" in that she does not see that Obamacare is not about helping the working and middle class but taking more from the Whites and given it to the nonwhites. As for the being able to "afford health insurance," it is believed by many that if Obamacare (OC) goes into effect rates will soar as high as the market will allow as insurance company executives will reap massive bonuses, as healthy people are forced to get insurance, but when people get sick their income often goes down so they can't afford higher premiums so they lose their insurance right when they need it the most, and like a piece on a TV news show where an old woman was in danger of being kicked out of a nursing home because she made four dollars too much to get Medicaid. The White working and middle class has been to responsible so they are denied help when they need it most, but the leisure poor (underclass) and the leisure rich (overclass) will have everything paid for directly and indirectly by the White Working and middle class taxpayers who will likely in time have trouble getting penicillin to save their child's life while the leisure classes get free cosmetic surgery.
I feel sadness for Jennifer and for you for you are both trapped in a time and place where before long what some people call "death Panels" may decide your fate. Do you believe a panel made up of a black, a nonwhite "Hispanic" and Jew would think it was worth spending half a million dollars to keep you alive? Jennifer chances might be slightly better but still slim. I hope you don't need major medical anytime soon but if you do hope OC doesn't exist.
Liberals represent the interest of old money and neocons new money but of course there is a mix of new money and old in both. Populism, national socialism and probably labor (except labor is almost always taken over by liberals quickly and turned into the exact oppose of what it started as) represent the interest of working and middle classes interest. The forces that support the working and middle class are part of the life force while liberals and neocons are part of the death force. From the life force a workable economic and medical systems will come from the others only chaos and suffering.
Hope you are doing well. Both you and Jennifer are in my prayers.
