
5 million have dropped ACA insurance after Trump and the GOP let prices skyrocket
"The steep drop in enrollment reflects what insurers, administrators, and other health policy experts expected earlier this year. After initial sign ups were lower than last year, they predicted that the picture would get worse as time went on and people found they could not afford to pay their premiums."
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/26/nx-s1-5860746/aca-health-insurance-subsidies-rates-premiums
The only way to escape the symptom driven healthcare system is with prediction and prevention. The best way to do this is with personal digital health monitoring empowering the user. AI makes this far easier by enhancing user competence using their data. Why surrender your data to the data bundling data ecosystem for free raising the risk of discovery by hackers, Russians, ... ? The technology can be designed so that the healthcare provider only has access to what they need when they need it. Healthcare is expensive because diagnosis is symptom driven, meaning the issue has already advanced to the level where damage has already happened. Any developing condition, if detected earlier, is cheaper to treat.