@Shiggy I frankly wish everybody would leave all the political talk to that space, because many of us come here to get away from that shit. You'll notice my first reply was to yell at someone I consider a friend of mine about it. 
I really don't care what you think about abortion. Having formerly been a mod on a board about that debate for years, I have seen more crack-pottery on that front than you can even begin to imagine. I'm also that chick who got "legitimately raped" even by the crackpot definition and thought she was pregnant from it and should never be pregnant (yay for luck breaks that I wasn't) because it'd do me major bodily harm at best, and was very pro-life at the time (not now, hello learning experiences), having been raised Catholic.
To say I have investment in the subject would be an understatement.
So please, want to ban it all you want! I will be over here laughing at you about how all the shit people claim never happens to support their merry visions of handwaving away the issues actually does fucking happen to real people all the fucking time.
Then we can get into the time the docs thought I had an ectopic pregnancy, and when I was sent in to have bloodwork to test for pregnancy, the pro-life med tech drawing blood not only did not know what an ectopic pregnancy was, which is horrifying for a medical professional, but how my not being thrilled with the idea of it and starting to merrily decorate a nursery was totally awesome justification to break the actual law and leak my personal phone number and address to the people who covered my car with the word MURDERER, throw flyers and hand-written in my door for literally years with the same, and call the house with abusive bullshit. That one was fun times.
The irony that it was a burst cyst and the pregnancy test came back negative, I suppose, was lost on positively everybody but me.
Zealots don't tend to bother with education, or, apparently, actual facts. And plenty imagine they're well within bounds to break the law, harass, or abuse others in pursuit of their zealotry. I am frankly watching every aspect of political life in the country dissolve into precisely the same sort of zealot-think, and there is no single issue that sends up a tornado alarm so loud about the negative consequences of that than the abortion debate.
That's why you don't want to get into that one with me.
On the ACA costs: ours is about $850+/month, which is a huge chunk of what we earn. We can't get subsidies for it since it's through an employer; we could buy something similar on the exchanges for about the same, but since there's an employer option available to us, we would get no subsidies for it. Yep, there's broken shit in there, to be sure. That is still better than dead.
The year I didn't have coverage (not married; unable to afford it; my income qualified me for medicaid but our state is funky on 'this month you made $200, the next you made $3k, even if the $3k month is a single month aberration' and they need to sort that shit out, seriously) I would have had to pay a fee that would have been under $400 or so, tops, but my income was low enough I didn't have to pay it anyway, because they do, actually, take that into account at a certain point. Which is less than half a month's coverage currently. While that sucks, it is not the insurmountable sum that people scream about; it's the principle of the thing, and I don't entirely disagree with that.
A friend of mine worked in a bank. Regularly, she would get calls at the call center about how the percentage of a penny shaved off this or that should be rounded up instead of rounded down, and these calls would descend into endless screaming about 'the principle of the thing'. Even I would earn more money than a penny for arguing with someone for twenty minutes about a fraction of a penny. There is a point at which the argument costs us more than what we're arguing about, and rather than digging in heels to scream about principles, practical common sense awareness needs to kick in at some point. Collectively, people are moving away from that practice to factionalize, and down that road lies an equally collective ruin.
