Genealogy and ACA [View all]

I've done some serious research into my father's side of the family, going back to the mid-nineteenth century.

My latest takeaway is how young my father's aunts were when they passed away in the Twenties and Thirties: mid-fifties; sixty, tops

Please note the years when they died were BEFORE the New Deal, Social Security. With mortality rates like that, middle age was old age back in the day. (OTOH, the brother of my father's mother lived to his early nineties, partly because he was wealthy and could afford the best medical care.)

I've also been able find online many of their death certificates with the cause of death recorded. Most were heart disease that could have been treated with a doctor.

With the potential repeal of the ACA, do we really want to return to the "Good old days" when you weren't expected to live beyond your mid-fifties?