Transforming Health Care: Understanding the Affordable Care Act and What Might Come Next

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been widely debated. While many believe that health care should be accessible to all, not all agree on which methods are best to achieve that goal. The speakers will discuss the ACA's current components, why revisions failed to pass in the House and Senate and what to expect in the future.

Speaker: Michael Chernew, PhD and Joe Newhouse, AB, PhD

[MLStein]

there is NOTHING affordable in the care act for me. my premium is 3x from my private, lost doctor, worse coverage, higher deductable....haven't had insurance since i got kicked of my private plan because i can't afford it! was $269 with the "affordable care act" it went up, yes UP, to $780.

[KianaEncinas]

Thank the fates that the ACA holds strong. Unfortunately you can tell where our nation priorities are. We care more about finances than people. That's where an individualistic society will get you. Hopeful for the future as PH gains funding and power. Hoping the fields of population health and health equity will continue to grow. Bless the woman who brought up health equality and shifted the energy and consciousness.

[hyesukkang]

Why don't we have universal health care, just trit any body get same treatment with limits to a unnecessary treatments. I don’t know the details of the all the administrative costs and insurance costs, but if you have simple administration like robat, will have plenty money to trit everyone. I hop that day will come soon.
If someone is sick or have accidents, just treat them. Why is that so difficult? Canada is doing for years why can't America?

[henk-]

It's far from perfect, but it was an important first step in universal healthcare in America. Now president Biden will have the task to improve it.

[MrApplewine]

UN affordable Care act! $400 a month for the lowest plan on healthcare.gov PLUS 6 to $8000 duductable you will pay every year if you use the medical care. Does not include dental or vision! That the low deductable plan.

[craigbigelow]

Yet, what the Dr.'s charging never gets questioned?

[marlarian]

I don't think single payor will survive as Americans want choices and freedom to purchase, even in healthcare.

[doctorboy]

I am an Australian doctor. A few points
Health care is completely free in Australian public hospitals. We have high taxes on the rich and that money pays for everyone to get health care.
Prevention does not stop a lot of the things we see. My 20 hour shift i just completed. Broken hand hit on a tractor, emergency caesarean section, removal of food stuck in the oesophagus, ectopic pregnancy removal, appendicectomy, kidney stone needing a stent inserted, broken leg from a motor vehicle accident (took 4 hours till fix), bleeding stomach needing clips put on the bleeding artery. Then at 2am I finished with the relocation of a dislocated hip.
Half of the money from my 20 hour shift went straight to tax but it paid for the poor to get treatment.
The two guys answering questions here are not medical doctors so cannot understand the realities of how a hospital functions.

[jamesfiaco]

Isn't it interesting that  candidates KEEP mentioning how the people of the district, are talking about why  prescriptions cost so much.   The intelligent question would be, why do doctors get paid to treat symptoms instead of curing illnesses and that  is definitely what the country needs and people, citizens, and civilians deserve.   The best chance of that type of care being given from coast-to-coast instantaneously would be for universal healthcare to be the law of the land.   Equally as important if not more is the best cure for any illness, disease, sickness, and or injury! Is And that starts with clean air, water, high nutritional, value food supplements organic GMO free would be best!  Combined with a decent workout regiment at the same time making sure anything that touches the body as in clothing, make up, beauty supplies, and cosmetics so forth and so on are made to the highest standards of quality! Which is organic, biodegradable, earth friendly, raw, wild, and natural.   The bottom line if you want each person's generation to become stronger,   smarter, healthier, happier, better off physically, mentally, and financially possibly spiritually than the previous generation we need to improve upon and maintain the quality of standards.                Which can only come from clean and high paying jobs from coast-to-coast that will improve upon and maintain the quality of our air, water, foods, supplements, sources of nutrition, landscapes, working/living environment, and every day home products.   We have the manpower capability technology resources to manufacture mass produce in state-of-the-art facilities instead of run down hole in the walls death traps.  Again we can mass-produce distribute things made to the highest standards of quality and we can ship these goods in  a way that leaves very little excess poisonous toxic waste behind eventually none at all.   Anything less is sacrilege against love honor and the creation of life.   Laugh, smile, grin, chuckle I say with absolute confidence!! If life is not free why the hell would death!  Be any cheaper  It's not.              The good news souls and spirits have paid out are picking up the Tab on the end results of dirty low-paying jobs which have resulted in a diminished quality of life.   The good news souls and spirits have paid out! Are being held or have been managed directly, maintained, and implemented with all the disease, sickness, illness, pain, suffering, torment, anger,   sadness, abuse, and neglect that has been allowed to manifest throughout the history of mankind into what it is today thanks to people like Donald Trump case closed. Mercy, forgiveness, and spiritual welfare are not changing those facts protecting carrying compensating any souls or spirits that are connected to a life that freely does not do its best to improve upon and maintain the quality of it.   When I want your opinion I will give it to you!
  That is the best  you will ever get.  If you go along to get along, assuming and  presuming or falsifying on your own behalf taking whatever is most convenient instead of what is needed to make real, physical, mental, and spiritual progress. Now I wish and pray for my soul and spirit to be held spiritually accountable to the statements I proclaim.   I guarantee you never see here another body man in power persons of legal religious authority leaders ever freely validate the statements they proclaim with that level of certainty.  One reason they don't have the best interest of the majority of the population's needs at Heart another reason may be the come from a breed of cowards. Or simply have a lifestyle that suggests confirms validates them as being feebleminded, physically inadequate, submissive subservient.   One is genetic hereditary the other is a generic learned behavior either way it is physically, mentally, or spiritually useless to live and die in such a low quality manner especially if it is due to self-neglect or stupidity that stems from being soft, lazy, out of shape, over fed, undernourished, overworked, and underpaid. S.R.F.

[badgerresistance]

Fuck the affordable care act. I used to pay 0 because my employer was paying 100% until hope and change fk it up.

[kathycper]

Aca is no good. People can not afford it and premiums are to high. It needs to be gone.

[lsjwoloi]

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