President Barack Obama assisted a pregnant woman who was about to faint in the middle of his speech about the Affordable Care Act. The woman was identified as Karmel Allison who was also a Type 1 diabetic. Type 1 diabetes was considered a pre-existing condition before the Affordable Care Act was enacted. She was standing behind the president when the incident occurred. Allison was invited to Obama's address by the American Diabetic Association after reading her blog post "What Obamacare Feels Like to a Diabetic." She later tweeted her thanks to the president for breaking her fall.
Allison told the Business Insider that she was grateful for Obamacare. She said, "I'm just very grateful to the President for all the work he's done to get this law enacted."
Not everyone, however, is happy about the law. Robert Graboyes, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, said the Affordable Care Act would burden the taxpayers and enrich the insurance firms.
He said the subsidy formula of the Affordable Care Act promised that a family with four members earning an annual income of USD 30,000 would not pay more than 2% of their annual earnings for coverage. If that family was charged USD 10,000 for a policy then they would pay only USD 600 while the federal government would take care of the USD 9,400. Meanwhile, the insurer would retain 20% of the USD 10,000 to cover overhead and profits as required by the medical-loss-ratio rules.
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