What’s so un-American about that?

Terrence Heath looks over the desire of the GOP to eliminate the Affordable Care Act. Heath tells the stories of a few people who have been helped tremendously by the reforms. One is Isaac, who was born without a complete esophagus, He hit the $2 million lifetime cap on his health insurance by age 13 months. Under the ACA there is no lifetime cap.

Heath also lists some of the recent GOP comments about the law. They're what we expect out of them. I'm quite amused about what Sarah Palin said.

The plan, Palin says, is to “break our health care system (where, presently, no one is turned away from emergency rooms and we have many public and private safety nets for people in need), along with busting our personal bank accounts.” Then, “The cry will go out, ‘Can’t you just put us all in a sort of Medicaid-like system? It’ll be much less confusing than these awful exchange websites and a lot less expensive!’”

Wow, what a fine idea!

A reminder of what economist Tyler Cohen repeated earlier this year and which appears to be the GOP answer to the ACA:

We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.

Another who is helped by the ACA is Mason, son of Janine Urbaniak Reid. A brain tumor was the reason he reached his lifetime cap at age 14. Reid wrote about her experiences in the Washington Post (they warned her not to read the comments). Her main point:

So what is wrong with allowing us to purchase a financial safety net? What’s so un-American about that?

May that question bedevil the GOP for a long time.