as someone with a pre-existing condition (that I didn't ask for), Obamacare was such a huge relief. Before I got into tech I was teaching guitar lessons and really enjoying things. My condition requires more than a once a year physical and my specialist got on me about not having health insurance because we weren't able to get the full panel of bloodwork done. I was routinely denied healthcare because of the condition. I had to pivot into tech as it was one of the few paths available that gave me health insurance. As you said its not perfect but its so much better than what we had prior to Obamacare becoming law.

Same here, but without a known pre-existing condition. Before Obamacare, health insurance companies would not even write me a policy, and they would not tell me why. Just "nope, go away". So every day, I was rolling the dice, hoping to not get seriously injured or sick. The problem with Obamacare is it didn't go far enough, the insurance companies stuck around like barnacles, leeching off the medical industry, with the government mandating we do business with them and they do business with us. I say scrap the whole lot of them.