OPINION: Donald Trump and the GOP Want Me to Lose My Health Insurance

…Since my diagnosis, my greatest fear has been losing my insurance. Under the old system, before the passage of the Affordable Care Act, or ‘Obamacare,’ the law held that insurers could not deny you coverage based on a pre-existing condition if you went without health insurance for less than 60 days. One second longer, and they were free to drop you as too much of a risk. They were also within their rights to put lifetime caps on coverage, meaning that once you hit a specific dollar amount, they would stop paying for your medical treatment and leave you to die…