To start with, the Affordable Care Act is a series of new laws and standards for health care. The Affordable Care Act was set up as a way to make it easier and cheaper for people to get healthcare. That was something we desperately needed, seeing that we pay much more money than any other country in the world on healthcare, according to sources like The Incidental Economist, a study by the Commonwealth Fund and author and a little bit of everything John Green.
The big changes are that everyone now needs to have healthcare and there are healthcare exchanges to buy healthcare from. If you can’t afford healthcare, there will be subsidies to help you afford it. If you’re already on a government health care program, nothing will change for you.
Overall, the Affordable Care Act covers a lot of areas that weren’t before and that used to be major flaws in the system. Flaws like if you had a prior medical problem as minor as hearing a ringing in your ears, you could be turned down for almost all insurance plans. It also allows people to stay on their parents health care plans until they’re 26. This can allow people to get out and do what they actually want to do, like create businesses and websites instead of being forced to stay in school or get a job they don’t want just to keep their health care. This plan is similar to plans in Switzerland and Massachusetts, where it’s worked very well.
The major problem I have with this plan though, is that it’s still incredibly capitalistic. With so many healthcare companies out there competing with each other, companies that sell medical supplies and drugs have a lot of different options to sell their products to. There’s not enough competition between these companies, so they can hike the prices of their products way up to health insurance companies. That’s one of the main reasons that health care in America is so expensive; our insurance companies have been bad medians in getting us lower health care prices.
What we need from the Affordable Care Act is a government healthcare program that can cover anyone who wants it. With a national program, all of these medical suppliers would be competing
To start with, the Affordable Care Act is a series of new laws and standards for health care. The Affordable Care Act was set up as a way to make it easier and cheaper for people to get healthcare. That was something we desperately needed, seeing that we pay much more money than any other country in the world on healthcare, according to sources like The Incidental Economist, a study by the Commonwealth Fund and author and a little bit of everything John Green.
The big changes are that everyone now needs to have healthcare and there are healthcare exchanges to buy healthcare from. If you can’t afford healthcare, there will be subsidies to help you afford it. If you’re already on a government health care program, nothing will change for you.
Overall, the Affordable Care Act covers a lot of areas that weren’t before and that used to be major flaws in the system. Flaws like if you had a prior medical problem as minor as hearing a ringing in your ears, you could be turned down for almost all insurance plans. It also allows people to stay on their parents health care plans until they’re 26. This can allow people to get out and do what they actually want to do, like create businesses and websites instead of being forced to stay in school or get a job they don’t want just to keep their health care. This plan is similar to plans in Switzerland and Massachusetts, where it’s worked very well.
The major problem I have with this plan though, is that it’s still incredibly capitalistic. With so many healthcare companies out there competing with each other, companies that sell medical supplies and drugs have a lot of different options to sell their products to. There’s not enough competition between these companies, so they can hike the prices of their products way up to health insurance companies. That’s one of the main reasons that health care in America is so expensive; our insurance companies have been bad medians in getting us lower health care prices.
What we need from the Affordable Care Act is a government healthcare program that can cover anyone who wants it. With a national program, all of these medical suppliers would be competing for one big contract with the government, giving the government a lot of leverage to demand cheaper and safer products. With less health care companies, there would be more competition between medical suppliers, drastically cutting the price of health care. We’d pay a bit more in taxes, but our healthcare costs would be much lower.
For more information on the the Affordable Care Act, look up The Health Care Triage, and look up John Green, who both do great jobs of describing why our health care is so expensive too. Till next time comrades, next year in Copenhagen!
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