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by lotsofpulp 1126 days ago
On the contrary, preventative services such as annual checkups are mandated to be covered 100% by the Affordable Care Act:

https://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/about-the-aca/preventive-care...

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Thanks for the link! That’s quite refreshing to hear. I didn’t realize the Affordable Care Act did so much more than ensuring availability of coverage and whatnot.
The ACA got a lot of headlines for a lot of BS but some of the really great things it did were very basic, under the radar items.

For example, a lot of the research that we are reading (including possibly the article we’re responding to) is the result of funding created by the ACA.

My favorite aspect of it is the massive push to digitization which means handwritten prescriptions have pretty much been eliminated removing an entire class of death and disease causing errors (from pharmacists misreading doctors’s handwriting).