Harris: "The late great John McCain, I will never forget that night. Walked onto the Senate floor and said no, you don't. No, you don't. No, you don't get rid of the Affordable Care Act. You have no plan. And what the Affordable Care Act has done is eliminate the ability of insurance companies to deny people with pre-existing conditions."
Before I was born and before my newlywed parents even knew to expect me, my father started a new job. Because it was long before the Affordable Care Act, their employer-sponsored health care refused to pay for my birth because I was considered a "pre-existing condition".
Fortunately for me, as my life's greatest health challenge culminated in 2017, the Affordable Care Act allowed me to get care that has allowed me to regain my strength, instead of likely dying before the age of 50 from a heart condition exacerbated by (if not gained from) years of overwork.