Anthony King: 2009

Money quote:

“You see: once without insurance in America, I would never have been able to get it again. I would have had a “pre-existing condition” and no insurance company would have accepted me…Losing everything you have ever had to prevent your own death was nearly my fate. It is the fate of many in America — not the very poor, who are helped, however badly and expensively, in hospital emergency rooms — but the working middle classes who lose their healthcare soon after they lose their job.”

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