Most of the ACA losers have a beef with Medicaid expanding to the young and healthy.  You described your poster child.  Now it's my turn.  My poster child, and I've come across many of this description, is a young healthy guy living with relatives who chooses to party and play video games instead of working full time.  Another favorite poster child of mine is someone who's self-employed working for cash (taxi driver, carpenter) who only reports enough income to ensure Medicaid eligibility.

Be assured (or comforted) that most of us ACA losers would keep the disabled on the Medicare / Medicaid combo.  However, I'd prefer to send the young, healthy low-income to government clinics instead of paying for their health insurance.  The ACA enlarged the cart but the unintended consequence was to decrease the number of those pushing or pulling the cart.  Time to ask some to get off the cart and be helpful.

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