Why ppaca is bad

If coverage without care is your goal, then the ACA may be a success. If, however, your goal is increased access, affordability and quality, then lawmakers should focus on providing Americans with more health care options that fit their unique circumstances.

Personalized care in conjunction with price transparency, a strategy the Job Creators Network Foundation has been exploring through its Healthcare for You reform framework, will increase access and lower costs for everyone. On the 11th anniversary of the ACA, the harmful unintended consequences of injecting more government into health care are undeniable.

They thought it would be too expensive. So in recent years, when both of them began having severe health issues, neither regularly went to the doctor.

By , both men were dead: her father from prostate cancer and her brother, at 19, from a massive pulmonary embolism. Thanks to the ACA, 20 million people in the U. It also helped narrow racial, gender and ethnic gaps in coverage.

Other groups, including women and young people, saw significant gains in coverage as well. But the law is also deeply flawed. To many mainstream Democrats, the law is an imperfect victory: in , they won the majority in the House of Representatives in part by trumpeting a platform of protecting—and improving—the ACA.

Progressives, meanwhile, see the law as not going nearly far enough. Congressional Republicans have voted at least 70 times to dismantle, defund or change the ACA, and conservatives have brought three major challenges to the law to the Supreme Court.

But in , when Republicans got their chance to kill the ACA outright, they balked. Before its passage, insurers could charge excess prices for—or outright deny—coverage to all kinds of people, including pregnant women and cancer survivors.

The ACA also eliminated annual and lifetime limits on coverage, a change that protects people who have had prior health emergencies. Perhaps unsurprisingly, researchers have found that having good insurance directly correlates with better access to care—which in turn often translates to better health. Increases in coverage due to the ACA led to an uptick in early cancer diagnoses; improved rates of treatment for diabetes, high blood pressure and kidney disease; and better self-reported health, studies find.

However, even some of those consumers have seen benefits from the law, although they might not realize it, like required rebates from insurers who charge too much for administrative costs. But it is human nature for people who feel wronged to complain loudly, while people who are satisfied merely go on with their lives. In the end, that is why it seems so many more people hate Obamacare than actually do.

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