Author here: My father and ex husband were both career military. I was married long enough to still be entitled to medical coverage through the military system. We briefly dealt with insurance and copays and all that when he was a recruiter stationed someplace without a military base. Other than that, I have had an experience of medical care closer to what many Europeans experience. I would be all for the US finding some means to institute government paid universal coverage. But I think that health insurance is too entrenched in the system for such hopes to be realistic any time soon. I think that is why the ACA chose the unfortunate path it chose: the transition directly from what we had before Obamacare to a European style solution is too harsh to be politically viable.

Maybe someday the US will get on board with providing a better solution. In the mean time, direct primary care is a legal loophole in the ACA that cuts out the middleman. Perhaps if it grows enough, we can eventually move towards something more civilized.

Thank you for commenting.