Preventative healthcare is the latest in a long string of potentially deadly consequences of the "Affordable" Care Act. The rising costs of co-payments and deductibles, combined with declining income, is forcing countless tens of thousands of people to simply quit seeing their doctor... unless it is an emergency. That, it turn, is increasing the costs of treatment, because what is being treated is much more serious than it would have been had a patient been able to afford to see a doctor earlier.
Right now, according to a recent study, 1/3 of Americans are skipping medical care in order to avoid the high costs. That's over 100 million people.
In addition, billions of taxpayer dollars has been spent to help states create their own health exchanges, and those exchanges are folding faster than flies dropping on a cold day. What a waste!!!
And no one in either political party in Washington seems to give a damn.
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