If the ACA wasn’t a panacea for the dire financial and biological situations faced by the men in the group, it was close. But the men, much like the politicians up the road, will have none of it. The reason, the men tell me in so many ways, is cost. “The dang thing cost too much,” says a man in his late forties who uses a walker to ambulate due to diabetic neuropathy. “We got enough debt in this country as it is.” “It’s a waste of our hard-earned tax dollars,” adds a man in his fifties who wears a nasal oxygen cannula because of chronic lung disease.
