February 10, 2021 3:56PM 

# “If the Affordable Care Act Can’t Cover a Little Girl Battling Cancer, What the Hell Good Is It?” 

By [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-f-cannon) 

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ObamaCare has made health insurance so expensive, Democrats have [determined](https://waysandmeans.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/chairman-neal-announces-markup-covid-19-relief-measures) that even individuals making more than $100,000 per year and households making more than $200,000 per year require subsidies to help them afford ObamaCare coverage.

ObamaCare is also [failing the sick](https://www.cato.org/commentary/obamacare-makes-discrimination-against-those-preexisting-conditions-even-worse?queryID=a266e67d85cecc7dd335f838c9fef41e). A recent [study](https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/dprinz/files/GerusoLaytonPrinz2019_0.pdf) in the *American Economic Journal: Economic Policy* found that under ObamaCare, even “currently healthy consumers cannot be adequately insured.”

Father and public affairs counsel at the Independent Institute Christopher Briggs has experienced the latter problem personally. ObamaCare has continuously pushed health insurers to drop coverage for his seven-year-old daughter’s cancer treatment. Listen to this [interview](https://omny.fm/shows/podcasts/c-e-interview-christopher-briggs-2-10-21) Briggs gave to WCBM 680AM in Baltimore.

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