Americans across the nation feel the burden of the high healthcare costs and difficulty acquiring health insurance. These barriers to health insurance is the very thing that the Affordable Care Act set out to eliminate. In an effort to insure Americans and implement an overarching preventative health system, we need to keep the ACA in place.

The program allows for Americans to benefit from the coverage of free preventative care, protects them from surprise policy cancellations because of pre-existing conditions, allows dependents to remain on insurance plans longer, and completely bans lifetime coverage limitations. The subsidies provided by the ACA helps to make beneficial health care coverage affordable for all. 

Without the healthcare marketplaces provided by the Affordable Care Act, millions of Americans would still be left uninsured and unable to afford the cost of health care plans. The main benefit of the Affordable Care Act is the provided coverage for preventative care. This strategy is an attempt to keep people out of the emergency room for conditions that could be treated and managed through preventative care. Americans dealing with conditions like diabetes, heart disease, and obesity are better served through preventative care as opposed to seeking emergency treatment and acquiring large hospital bills. 

The cycle of high cost medical bills ultimately effects every #patient at a hospital, increasing the costs for everyone. When patients receive hospital bills they cannot pay, hospitals must make up for unpaid bills by increasing the costs for other patients. With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, the rise of hospital costs has slowed, proving to be a benefit to people across the nation. 

The ACA also allows uninsured children to remain on their parents insurance plans for longer. In the midst of high unemployment rates and college graduates experiencing difficulty gaining employment, remaining on a parent’s healthcare plan allows them to remain insured until they are 26. 

The ACA offers a wide variety of benefits for Americans across all income levels and with an array of health concerns. For the benefit of keeping Americans insured and helping them afford their insurance, the ACA should be kept in place.