TV Reporter interviews President Obama. Tells POTUS the ACA saved his life.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/12/1392785/-TV-reporter-gets-one-on-one-interview-with-President-Obama-thanks-him-for-saving-his-life-with-ACA

Extra! news anchor Jerry Penacoli was shocked when he was diagnosed with skin cancer:

It was just a tiny brown freckle on my inner right thigh. Then, practically overnight, it became black and slightly raised. Had it been on my back or another less visible part of my body, I never would have known it was there. I had it removed last September, the doctor optimistically saying, “It looks like nothing.” But it was something: the biopsy came back positive for melanoma, stage III.

When I heard that word, “cancer,” first I cried, then I became paralyzed with fear, then I sprang into action. I talked to other melanoma survivors in Los Angeles about surgeons and oncologists, and became a sponge in order to absorb as much information from credible sources as possible about this form of skin cancer.

I was in surgery four days after my diagnosis. Two surgeries were performed: one to remove the affected area of my thigh, and another to remove 22 lymph nodes nearby because a biopsy of the nodes showed evidence that the melanoma had spread (metastasized) there. A PET CT scan also separately detected possible thyroid cancer, and after a needle biopsy, I had to have my entire thyroid removed.

Jerry's a survivor, thanks to quick treatment and a health care plan he purchased on a Affordable Care Act insurance exchange. He had an opportunity to sit down with President Obama for a one-on-one interview and he started by personally thanking the President for helping to save his life.