The roll out of the new health care system has gotten a lot of supporters and a lot of critics. But before there was the Affordable Health Care Act there was Medicare and Medicad. Medicare is a type of health insurance for seniors while Medicad is suppose to provide health insurance for those with low income. Before the new health insurance went into effect, people who didn’t fit into either for the two categories above, meaning they were not over 65 or they made too much money to be considered low income (but not enough to afford insurance) had to rely on other means to get seen by a doctor. I know people who would wait until they were really sick and then just go to the emergency room because hospitals can’t turn patients away. Those same people would then end up with a huge medical bill which they couldn’t pay. This would force them to not pay or pay in small bits and wait until they were really really sick again and go back to the hospital. I guess the good thing about having health insurance is the preventive care it will provide to those like some of my friends and family.