Pre-ACA my mother got cancer in a short window where the University my Dad was president of got wound down for financial reasons.

Destroyed my entire trajectory in life.

The prior system was mega fucked, our current system is still fucked.

If you had a congenital condition prior to the ACA you were a wage slave once you hit 18, no private insurance and couldn't get public. Literally founded a successful startup the minute I got ACA.

Over 40+ years I've seen nearly every profession go through a bubble and lean years, lawyers, mechanics, academics.

But never doctors, in retrospect I should have joined that protectionist racket, but my family couldn't afford to let me at the time.