“I question your statement that the bill of healthcare expenses could be avoided if people took care of themselves from a young age.”
I’m going to assume that you meant to write “bulk”, but anyway- I got that from a presentation made by actuaries and they had the ratio at around 85% avoidable to 15% unavoidable. Luckily, I hopped off the gravy train I was riding at the time at the last stop before its catastrophic crash. Unfortunately, though, as I’m no longer in the health care industry, I don’t have access to that presentation and I can’t find the slides I thought I saved.
@jackk mentioned pregnancies in a previous thread and I was looking for the study to see its sources and see if they counted pregnancies as avoidable or unavoidable but as I mentioned I couldn’t track it down.
So Bli Nader until I can find the presentation and investigate the sources, I’ll try not to write that the “bulk of medical costs are avoidable” but rather “hundreds of billions of Dollars in medical costs are avoidable”.
You mentioned that you’re a supporter of the ACA- in your personal opinion, how do you justify the catastrophic consequences it had on millions of families whose medical expenses went up by around $10,000 annually? If they’re hard-working families and already had generous coverage- is it fair to make them pay so much more?