One provision of the Affordable Care Act that I am particularly in favor of, is the coverage of preventative care without being charged a copay or coinsurance (Fox & Shaw, 2014). These include specific serves for adults, children, and pregnant women. I have talked many times about the importance of preventative care. Not only is preventative care beneficial to the patient, but it can also help combat the soaring cost associated with healthcare. Having insurance coverage has always had an effect on the use of preventative services (Siu, Bibbins-Domingo, Grossman, 2015).

There are now 63 preventive services covered under the ACA (Preventive Services, 2014). Studies have shown that 100,000 lives could be saved annually if people would utilize these preventative care services (Fox & Shaw, 2014). And even more impressive 9 out of 10 deaths could have …show more content…
Patients who focus on disease prevention, put less of a demand on the healthcare system, thus leading to lower costs. People are living longer with managed chronic conditions. However, there are still over 900,000 people that die in the U.S. a year from disease or chronic conditions that are preventable (Cohen, Neumann, and Weinstein, 2011). The ones that care is managed, are kept alive through costly medicines and procedures (Nieroda, Keeling, & Keeling, 2015). These conditions account for some of the highest cost treatments in the health care system (CDC, 2015). American needs to focus on stopping the diseases before they start and pick up being healthy, active, and fit. This would also help drive down health care costs. While studies cannot truly agree if prevention and health promotion cut down on health care costs, there is research that shows this to be the case. One study expects preventive services to reduce health care costs by $3.6 billion annually (Maciosek et al.,