The ACA didn't do this, though, Janet. Every time you sign that release of information form at your doctor's office, you are not only giving them permission to share your information with your insurance company.

You are also giving your insurance company permission to share your information with every.other.stinking insurance company in the country, through their central clearing house.

Really, I'd rather have what every other first world country has--national healthcare. But the richest country in the world, the only superpower that's left, "can't afford it."

We're too busy making sure that the .01% can keep more of their income than the bottom 99%.