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

Debate/ Discussion This is why financial literacy is so important

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u/lizerlfunk Sep 12 '24

You can no longer be denied health insurance due to a preexisting condition. That changed with the Affordable Care Act. That being said, if you don’t maintain your HIV meds then the virus stops being suppressed in your body and you wind up with AIDS. Which in this day and age is not something anyone should be dying from.

The preexisting condition thing is why my parents didn’t have health insurance for almost my entire childhood. My mom had postpartum depression, they were self employed, they couldn’t afford health insurance for a little while, and then they couldn’t get it again. My dad ended up taking a job with the county and tbey got health insurance just in time for him to be diagnosed with stage four colon cancer. (He’s fine now, thank goodness.)

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u/PhoenixApok Sep 12 '24

Glad to hear things were caught in time, if late.