The Affordable Care Act was designed as insurance reform and not health care reform. A significant opportunity was missed to fundamentally change the future of our health care system. In turn these changes would have forced reform in our insurance and reimbursement processes. The reasons for this missed opportunity are multiple with the heart of the matter being a political view of our health care system versus a patient/consumer/health point of view.
Let me pose a futuristic point of view relative to what our medical care could be.
1) What if you could determine a child's predisposition to future diseases? Would you advocate for such determinations?
2) What if you could prevent many of our costly chronic/age related diseases? Would you advocate for such prevention?