You are listening to another No Fair Remembering Stuff, the Tuesday edition of The Professional Left,

and available wherever you get your podcasts, and on our website, pro-leftpod.com, where you can also

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and or contribution at the Professional Left podcast, P., PL Box 9133, Springfield, Illinois, 62791.

And it's not with a disclaimer.

We are not health care policy professional.

However, like most of you, we live through the many battles of the Affordable Care Act in real time.

Without the ACA, we wouldn't have health insurance, and we would have faced the kind of medical and financial disasters that have bankrupted so many American families.

Fran, Blue Gal, my beautiful wife and partner, spent days or weeks, it felt

like, felt like months on the ACA website navigating me exchange and became a real expert in her own

right and Twitter pals with Andy Slavitt. Although she denies it, I know it's true. I'm just a big fan

of Andy Slavitt, that's all. Yeah. The way you look at him. I know it's true. I'm just a big fan of Andy Slavitt.

That's all.

Yeah.

The way you look at him, no.

There's more going on there than I think you care to admit to yourself.

He is a hero of mine.

Let me put it that way.

And he, by the way, he is a genuine health care policy professional.

He knows everything about everything.

And if you want to really dig into this topic, you should buy his book.

Anyway, we lived and died with every Republican attempt to gut that law or defund it or have it thrown out of court for legal reasons.

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