• SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    You are assuming that having insurance is correlated to physical or financial health and is therefore an improvement.

    Rationally that makes sense, that’s what it’s supposed to do. Empirically the data shows an overall negative correlation between private healthcare rates and general healthcare outcomes.

    It’s true that the uninsured rate went from 17% pre-ACA(2010 when it was signed) to 10%(2016 2 years after it was implemented at an uninsured local minima) which is ~18 million people. However in that same timespan average annual health expenditures, for the entire US population, doubled from $1600 per person per year to $3200. Pre-ACA trend would’ve resulted in ~$2200.

    That’s a difference of ~4.87 trillion dollars stolen by “healthcare” corporations from individuals over the last 14 years.