You are probably still 2 years away (maybe more) from being able to ask your doctor to prescribe it and getting insurance to reimburse.
However, they are now legally allowed to tell you about it and theoretically you can pay for it yourself
You are probably still 2 years away (maybe more) from being able to ask your doctor to prescribe it and getting insurance to reimburse.
However, they are now legally allowed to tell you about it and theoretically you can pay for it yourself
No insurance? Higher premiums? No treatment, for a prior "known condition"?
Required test prior to getting insurance? Renewing?
In any case the problem with the US healthcare system is not that now everyone has a sort-of right to insurance, the problem is on the spending side. Y'all spend many thousands of dollars more per capita than the Swiss [2] but have worse metrics across the board.
[1] https://www.beckerspayer.com/payer/the-house-always-wins-hea...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
- A few fundamental flaws of Obamacare that broke the incentive structure of the healthcare and some regulatory capture. (Granted, the incentive structure has always been a little broken even before Obamacare)
- A broken, overly politicized healthcare system in general (something, everyone can agree with)
However, people always seem to gloss over this fact: The United States is responsible for vast majority of R&D and revenue in the healthcare sector. Frankly, the US taxpayer and consumer are subsidizing the rest of the world including the Swiss.
As a US person, I would love to stop this dynamic and stop hearing this tired, patronizing argument.