In March, a federal judge struck down an essential Affordable Care Act policy that mandated private insurers fully cover certain preventive care services, including screenings for cancer, diabetes, depression, and more. The ruling potentially affects all Americans who get their health coverage through their jobs — roughly 150 million people.
With rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and depression exploding, why are we snuffing out efforts to stop this crisis from spiraling even more? Instead, we should be sounding the alarm. Those preventable conditions are the leading drivers of our country’s $4 trillion in annual healthcare costs.
