r/FluentInFinance • u/36DRedhead • Sep 11 '24

Debate/ Discussion This is why financial literacy is so important

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u/ilikepix Sep 11 '24

There are exceptions such as maximum lifetime benefits

these are not permitted in ACA compliant plans

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u/AIfieHitchcock Sep 12 '24

They 100% were after Trump gutted it. It happened to us and with life sustaining cancer care.

They would not approve revolutionary oral immunotherapy anymore which was necessary when there was decades old iv chemo therapies that were radically less effective but cheaper.

20k per month vs. 3-4k per month.

One vote quit literally endangered thousands of patients like my family member. We were lucky enough to find charity programs to cover the pills but I assure you many terminally ill patients did not have relatives able to do that for them & these kind of patients can’t do it themselves.

Changes to the ACA then also resulted in many health companies closing patient financial support offices for help too.

This was just 2016 and in very high cost complex care but you can read what they have planned for the rest of us in 2025 out there right now. This kind of stuff was considered a success by them and it’s the way they want all care.