Besides being a godless secular progressive out to destroy all that is good in America, I am also a long-long-time Japanese animation (aka "anime") fan, who has lived in several states while attaining post-graduate technical degrees and working several scientific software algorithm jobs. As such I have made a number of friends in these various communities, who are now scattered all over the country...
I wanted to share this personal story from one of my several anime-fan friends in another state, who related earlier today how the Affordable Care Act (aka "Obamacare") has had a demonstrable positive effect on his ability to grow his small anime merchandise business, in exactly the manner that was so roundly mocked by our "free-market" loving corporatist punditocracy.
Below the fleur-de-Kos, I have [redacted] personal info to protect the innocent and to prevent the possibility of any right-wing lurkers on this site from posting his or his business' name on WorldNetDaily or somesuch, insisting "Hey this shop may have that Attack on Titan figure you want but its owner supports Obama so BOYCOTT!"
Also too, this brings to at least 4 the number of similar small-business/freelancer friends of mine with similar stories...
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