Actually, no. Even ignoring the issue of subsidies, before ACA, if he'd let it get this far before getting insurance, he would've run into the "pre-existing condition" exception that was more or less universal except when prohibited by state law. And I suspect South Carolina was not among the states that did prohibit it. Wouldn't want to interfere with the poor insurance companies' right to operate in a "free market" now, would they?I hope he gets the help he needs. Blaming the ACA is extreme denial, however. He'd have been in exactly the same position before the ACA.
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