It Could Be Much, Much Worse
Life Before the Affordable Care Act
Thanks for reading! Here’s a couple quick things before you go!
I have a comic about Raising the Resistance in the forthcoming anthology, The People’s Project, edited by Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith. The book has new and selected work from some of my favorites (Alexander Chee! Mira Jacob! Ashley C. Ford! Ada Limon! Kiese Laymon! and so many more!). It’s available for pre-order now!
If you’re interested in signing up for the next session of Comics For People Who Can’t Draw, I’m running the one-day version in August and the 6-week version starting in September! The six-week always sells out, so if you’re interested, grab your spot early!
What a trip down memory lane. My dad died in January, 2007, and my parents’ very expensive, very good, group health insurance plan gave my mom 30 days to find new insurance. (They owned a small business together. They were the group.) I took time off from work to help her find new health insurance. The only companies that would even talk to us wanted her to sign a waiver, acknowledging exclusion of her pre-existing conditions for the first year. Or maybe it was the first two years, I can’t remember. There was no discounted rate for the exclusion, either.
We eventually found a plan subsidized through the state that would cover her, and she became eligible for Medicare about 18 months later. Health insurance companies are f*€$king evil.
Thank you so much for this!