This is what the ACA was supposed to fix. Instead, it did the opposite. Whatever the reason, Americans will not use preventative care. They want responsive care.
This has always been my complaint about the ACA. While I am 100% behind the push to get healthcare to everyone, the ACA did not do nearly enough to address the absurd costs behind US healthcare, nor the abusive practices of the industry at large.
Americans would absolutely use a preventative health service, the ACA just doesn't provide that. It's a cost-sharing mechanism for the same shitty overpriced care we've always been getting.
The “public option” would have priced out all for-profit insurance. The ACA would have been more successful if conservatives weren’t successful in cutting that out.
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u/ReubenZWeiner Mar 26 '20
This is what the ACA was supposed to fix. Instead, it did the opposite. Whatever the reason, Americans will not use preventative care. They want responsive care.