OU Medical Center launches extra fee for nonemergency care in ER

[Midtowner]

Appreciate your intellectual honesty.

Obamacare is saving lives.

[Dubya61]

Appreciate your intellectual honesty.

Obamacare is saving lives.

If the only tenet of PPACA were the allowance for parents to insure their children to age 26, then, yes, PPACA is saving lives.
It's worth noting that that greater coverage is not some wonderful pencil whip, though. The parents have to pay more for their insurance, now.
All the same, I'm sure most parents would gladly pay the price for their children's insurance.
The incredible morass of the rest of PPACA, though is not worth the cost to the taxpayers.
PluPan says,

She seems like she is trying and life and is not a bum.

If she's getting insurance now through the exchanges at a reduced rate, she's receiving some sort of government subsistence, though, so her elation at not

being described as a freeloader that wants to live off of the government health care teat

should be quite short-lived. With the elimination of standard insurance policies such as excision of coverage for pre-existing conditions means that she is no longer insured. We are all now part of a cost-sharing plan -- run by the IRS.