Quality, affordable healthcare coverage is incredibly important to families in the U.S.
MomsRising has recieved thousands of messages from our volunteers with stories about why the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare), Medicaid, CHIP, and Medicare matter for the health of their families. This #ProtectOurCare blog series will highlight many of the stories we've received.
From Robin in Alaska:
My daughter sustained lung damage during birth, despite being carefully monitored in a hospital. She was in the NICU for a month and needed follow-up care for a year. All told her medical bills for that year reached nearly one million dollars. Without the ACA provision that prevented our insurance from capping annual benefits, we would be bankrupt. Without CHIP paying for costs that Blue Cross would not cover (heart medication that had to be compounded for an infant, oxygen that she needed 24 hours a day for 4.5 months), we would be slightly better than bankrupt. I fear that my daughter's first moments of life will make her uninsurable for the rest of her life.
You can read more stories from parent across the country here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.momsrising.org/images/Lifesaver_Book_-_Final...
And if you have a story of your own you'd like to share, you can submit it here: http://action.momsrising.org/survey/healthcare-stories/
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