Eugene DePasquale: “Tens of thousands, if not millions of people before the ACA…”

“I'm putting myself through night law school and your brother passes away from complications with muscular dystrophy and there's no health insurance. That story is not alone. Tens of thousands, if not millions of people before the ACA had to deal with [lack of health insurance]. that. Either the taxpayers picked it up through Medicaid reimbursement to the hospital system, the hospitals just maybe ate it in some instances, or people just went bigger and bigger into debt.” (10:09–10:14)

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