Behind the push to strike down free preventative health care in America
On Point | Podcast
WBUR
4.2 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The Affordable Care Act says you don't have to pay for preventative health care. But a federal judge in Texas recently struck that down. And it could change the way 160 million Americans get their care. Nicholas Bagley joins Meghna Chakrabarti.
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| 0:43.1 | Patrick Sarback lives in North Carolina. |
| 0:45.6 | In 2016, he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. |
| 0:51.0 | He's relied on the Affordable Care Act heavily since then, particularly the free preventive |
| 0:56.7 | healthcare mandated by the law. |
| 0:59.7 | And the preventive screening has shown five other tumors and allowed us to get on them. |
| 1:07.7 | It gives me a better chance at seeing my kids graduate and get married and stuff. |
| 1:16.8 | I lost my wife to brain cancer two years ago. |
| 1:20.7 | And again, the ACA not only saved her life for a good period of time, it also allowed |
| 1:28.5 | us to stay in our house and maintain a family. |
| 1:33.6 | So really hope they don't pull that from the policy. |
| 1:39.9 | From 2010 until last month, because of the Affordable Care Act, Americans had access |
| 1:47.7 | to zero cost screenings. |
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