My Two Cents: Taking the Care Out of Health Care

My Two Cents: Taking the Care Out of Health Care is an insider’s view that describes the powerful potential and broken promises of Obamacare, offering a realistic, actionable, and solution-oriented plan to address the affordability of health insurance plans and affordable access to the health care system.

Antonio Paulo Pinto worked tirelessly to make the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act an effective and exemplary program to help people access affordable health insurance and health care services. As a proud American and loyal Democrat, he was thrilled to be part of a great moment in history. Unfortunately, he was left heart-broken with how dysfunctional, heartless, and uncaring the program turned out to be. PPACA was never properly implemented. It did not function well and treated people inhumanely. Worst of all, it betrayed the promise of making health insurance plans affordable and health care accessible. Fundamentally, the program is flawed as it relies entirely on "voluntary" participation by health insurance companies and health care providers; depending on health-insurance-illiterate and non-liable bureaucrats and enrollers to assist people. The only real winners today are the greedy and paternalistic hospital systems, the pharmaceutical firms, and the administrative agencies they control. Now, the health care system is on the verge of collapse.