EDITORIAL: Room For Improvement
Yet, the overriding question remains: At what cost?
In
That was one of the primary goals of the Affordable Care Act -- to help people procure insurance. Financially, this makes some sense, as the uninsured are more likely to use emergency rooms as an urgent care service or to engage in other behavior that eventually passes the costs along to others.
At the same time, characterizations of
In other words, the costs of the Affordable Care Act should continue to be subject to critical examination -- and there is no shortage of critics willing to do this. As
And yet, only the most cold-hearted of critics would not view an increase in the number of insured citizens as a benefit.
All of this can be confounding for taxpayers. The American health care system was in need of attention; the Affordable Care Act has provided some imperfect improvement; and
With health care promising to be a signature issue for this year's presidential election -- and Congressional elections -- this approach is unacceptable. The number of newly insured people proves that the Affordable Care Act is rife with success stories, but there is plenty of room for improvement.
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