This is dead on accurate.Middle Age Russ wrote:The Affordable Care Act was never about care or affordability at all. It deals with health insurance, not health care, and was crafted in such a way that repealing it would be extremely difficult. The Progressives knew very well what they were doing and they went about getting it done while they could. Even though the Democrat party is in the minority in the House and Senate, it appears that the Progressives still hold the field with enough Republican support and Republican in-fighting the keep ACA the law of the land. Insurance and Pharmaceutical lobbyists have in effect bought support for the status quo along with ever-increasing prices, regardless of the name of the law.
Insurance companies are limited to roughly 20% of premium dollars for operating expenses and profit. The easiest way to make more $ is to ignore cost of care and increase premiums.
Hard to overcome $10,000,000,000 in lobby $. Pharma, docs, hospitals, med equip cos and ins companies own congress.
https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=i
Nothing will help until the cost of care is reduced.