Dear
John,

When Elena Hung introduces her six-year old Xiomara to members of Congress, she describes a young girl who loves going to the playground, library and school, visiting new places and spending time with her big brother.

Xiomara was also born with ten pre-existing conditions and spent five months in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Her care cost more than $3 million before she turned one year old. Today, she uses a wheelchair to explore the world around her as well as a tracheostomy and feeding tube.

Because the Affordable Care Act (ACA) bans lifetime caps, insurance companies cannot decide Xiomara's life isn't worth the cost and cut off her care just because she met some arbitrary dollar amount.

For Elena's family, the ACA's protections for people with pre-existing conditions has meant having more birthdays to celebrate together.

What has the Affordable Care Act meant for you and your loved ones? Tell us:
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Elena knows firsthand that health care is a matter of life and death for children like Xiomara. That's why she co-founded the advocacy organization Little Lobbyists in 2017 to help protect the ACA from GOP efforts to weaken and repeal the law. [link removed]

For the past four years, the National Partnership has fought alongside Little Lobbyists and in coalition with more than 50 women's community organizations to save the ACA from extinction.

This community of National Partnership supporters was with us every step of the way. Your emails and phone calls to your members of Congress, petition signatures and donations made a big difference over the past four years. Thank you!

Today, we mark the 11th anniversary of the ACA's passage with smiles on our faces and a deep commitment to supporting the Biden administration's actions to expand coverage, lower costs, and reduce racial disparities in health care.

The Biden administration hears us when we say it's not enough to simply reverse four years of sabotage. That's why the American Rescue Plan that President Biden signed into law this month includes the most significant health care expansion in decades - because making coverage more affordable and accessible is essential as millions of women have lost their jobs and their health insurance during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Help us celebrate 11 years of the Affordable Care Act - and a new era for health care policy - by sharing what health care coverage means for you.
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Thank you!

- Sarah

Sarah Coombs
Director for Health System Transformation

P.S. You can learn more about Little Lobbyists at [link removed] and [link removed] .



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