[Old Dog New Trick]

I would think it wasn't profitable enough for the insurance companies.

I'm not sure that Medicare and/or Medicaid were ever funded well enough through income taxes alone to pay for them, and as the average life expectancy (Medicare) grew and entitlement families increased (Medicaid) it became an unaffordable government subsidy.

I never thought the ACA was going to fix anything and as it turns out it probably wrecked more than it fixed. Government redistribution plan in action that failed on so many levels.

There is no reason (other than greed and stupidity) that proper and adequate healthcare can't be made affordable, available and appropriate to the level of care everyone deserves.

From birth to schools years to employment and into retirement and death. But we have allowed greedy people with deep pockets (and lots of lobbyists) and lawyers with forked tongues to control the message that healthcare has to be expensive to cover the costs of mistakes. Fix tort reform and liability at all levels and watch the costs come down to affordable levels for all.

Bilking the entire system to pay for unnecessary high risk low outcome procedures and diagnostic equipment and the ensuing liability insurance to cover mistakes with astronomical consequences (right or wrong) have gotten a simple outpatient procedure or treatment to cost thousands more than the actual costs involved. From there inpatient hospitalization, ER, elective and non-elective surgeries have price tags no one can afford yet they are being done because someone else pays. And when it all goes awry again someone else pays.

Medical care in America is a Win-Win for anyone involved in it (the business side) and a lose some-win some for everyone that needs it (the patient side.)