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Originally Posted by Thepaindispenser

And how exactly does Obamacare address those issues?

It would be so nice if voters would pay a tiny bit of attention to major, historic legislation, passed two years ago, that affects their lives.

Health care in the US is 1/5 of our economy. A major reason healthcare reform was pursued was because it's a huge economic issue dragging this country down. We have one of the most expensive, waste-ridden, poor-outcome-for-the-dollar healthcare systems of all the first world countries. One of the worse and most expensive.

It does not solve them, of course, but the ACA absolutely addresses and improves:

Cost control
Premium price control
Medication costs
Health care improvements by access improvement
Funding of CDC and scientific initiatives
Massive cutting of fraud and waste in Medicare/Medicaid
Funding for private practitioners (increased numbers)
Changing payments to doctors for better outcomes, not more testing.
Coordination between health care teams.
Medical records improvements.

And on and on. You can click on healthcare.gov to read and educate yourself.