The ACA arguably makes a few things more 'fair' but it's still profiteering sick care via cost shifting. Drug companies seem to have an incentive to get $5000/

The ACA arguably makes a few things more 'fair' but it's still profiteering sick care via cost shifting. Drug companies seem to have an incentive to get $5000/yr treating type 2 diabetes (i.e. carb intolerance) rather than telling people to stop eating so many carbs. The doctors and insurance companies just go along with it, as there doesn't seem to be an economic disincentive for them. I know first hand that is bullshit, so I have to wonder how many other things are rotten (statins vs diet). If we actually cared about health in this country, we'd probably ban most of the current food production 'technologies' and stop subsidizing/pushing carbs [edit: for everybody; some people can handle them]. But healthy people don't grow GDP, having bypasses and perpetually treated diseases grows GDP, and god knows all this country cares about is the GDP number.