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Promises but problems: Here's how Obamacare helps one Louisiana resident, hurts another

Source: theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/business/article_5a370fec-72e4-11e7-9f42-43a7b7b30a6f.html - Aug 7, 2017

For Margie Ohmer, there is no debate. The federal health care law helped save her life. It certainly saved her hair salon business.

Just before Thanksgiving in 2015, the owner of Bella Gente Salone in Baton Rouge was diagnosed with cancer; doctors removed her right kidney three weeks later.

"Without health insurance, I would have lost my business. At the time, I had six people working there," said Ohmer, who bought health insurance through the federal health insurance marketplace four years ago with subsidies that make it affordable.

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