relationship with all aspects and how screwing with one can effect the other.
If the Repugs are really serious to making health care affordable - the other things that they need to keep in perspective is how an agency like the NIH is an important piece of the puzzle.
Research in disease states aids in finding new cures and new methods of detection is important in hopes of saving more American's lives and lowering the costs of care.
Without NIH doing their job - health care costs continue to rise. More sick people. Requiring more care. Care costs money. Health insurance premiums go up due to an influx of more and sicker patients thrown into the system utilizing more pharmaceuticals, medical devices, testing, hospitalizations, etc.
That is why it is important to put a focus on Preventative Healthcare. Keep people healthy. Keep them out of the system.
Having the NIH's budget cut by $1.2B seriously hampers their efforts to forge ahead on research that is important in keeping costs down.
Think of all the damage Trump is doing to our environment; lack of regulations; underfunding of these things - just begs for making the health of American's suffer. Again - sicker American's - require more healthcare - at a time when people would be kicked off of their health insurance - when the environment makes them sicker - when regulations that protect them are removed, etc.
It just spiral's out of control. Costs will go up and not down.
One thing Obama thought through is how all of these things interact to make our healthcare system better and keep American's healthy and out of the system. That was the beauty of ACA. It might have been 2000 pages long - but they took into account all aspects of healthcare.
The problem with Trump and the Repugs - it is a knee-jerk reaction to wanting to undo anything that Obama accomplished. They will destroy the delicate balance just to spite Obama and deny him a legacy. Sure - their ACHA was a quarter of the size of ACA. The reason is that they didn't bring in all the healthcare stakeholders to make sure that any of their decisions for ACHA didn't cause more problems and upset the balance.
I read the complete ACA Act. It was really comprehensive and well thought out. Not so with the Repugs. You can't put something so complex together in a back room somewhere and try in pass it in 17 days without bringing into account the providers of healthcare - the stakeholders - and considering all aspects of the healthcare system.
Until they do this - anything that they will try and pass will just work against the system.
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