I found the statistics a bit disconcerting as well, as the consequences of not getting preventative care can snowball into other (even larger) costs down the road. With provisions to "prohibit insurance companies from denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions, and prevent insurers from varying premium rates based on gender or health status", and also to require coverage of preventive services and vaccines recommended by federally sponsored committees without co-payments or other cost-sharing, I think the health care act is really focusing on what needs to be examined first. However, because the problems with health care that need to be tackled seem so diverse and all-encompassing, I'm not sure how effective the bill will be, in terms of the many issues that it addresses (including how specific its goals are and how it will try to achieve them, i.e. at what scale will the provisions go into effect).