Healthcare should not depend on your job, your income, or how well you can argue with an insurance company. It should be there when you need it, but that’s not how the system works today.
When the Affordable Care Act became law, it expanded coverage to more than 20 million Americans and made it illegal for insurance companies to deny you because of a preexisting condition. It gave families a measure of stability in a system that had been failing them for years. Representative Mario Díaz-Balart voted against it.
That vote wasn’t symbolic. It was a vote against expanding coverage to millions of Americans, and against the protections that now allow people to get care without being turned away. We know exactly what happens when those protections are weakened. Working families suffer.
Here in South Florida, where it already costs thousands of dollars a month just to live, healthcare costs don’t just hurt, they push families to the edge. They force impossible choices:
- Do you fill your prescription, or pay your rent?
- Do you see a doctor, or keep the lights on?
No one should have to make those decisions, yet people do - every day.
The system is built in a way that benefits the companies not the patients. It’s complex, fragmented, and shaped by the same kind of influence that keeps costs high and accountability low. That’s why nothing has changed, but their time is up!
