Patients across the QCA have been waiting for Thursday's Supreme Court decision, now some are relieved for themselves and their families with the decision.
Rick Schloemer tells us his son went nine months with cancer, with no insurance to cover it.
"He was cared for his life, as anybody would be," Schloemer says, "He had no health insurance, finally got a job, and the health insurance didn't kick in for a couple of months, and even after that waited because he worried it could be a pre-existing condition."
By then, the cancer went for so long untreated, it spread to the lungs.
"He did get treated, went through the chemo, and he's been cancer-free for several years," Schloemer says.
He says Thursday's decision could help save others who are stuck in the same situation.
"If you don't have that healthcare, you let those conditions go because you cannot afford it and usually by the time you end up in the emergency room or the hospital, the condition is so far along, there's really nothing anybody can do," he says.
Likewise, Lisa Killinger is breathing a sigh of relief today. She's a cancer survivor and has insurance, for now.
"If I were to lose my employment and my insurance, I'd be extraordinarily vulnerable without this healthcare act," Killinger says.
"If I were to try and go out and shop on the market for insurance, I would either not be able to get insurance or be paying a high premium," she says.
Both Killinger and Schloemer say there are many others just like them, unable to afford or get healthcare, waiting until it lands them in the emergency room to get treated. Both hope today's decision will help those who need it.
"There are many people in my circumstance who've had previous cancer, diabetes, or heart disease, they would not have been able to get coverage," Killinger says, "It's embarrassing for a nation this wealthy to be able to be in such a poor health circumstance."
