An ongoing, tragic misunderstanding
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Health care comprises a sixth of our workforce and a sixth of our economy and is frustratingly complex (as a doctor, I should know). It is easy to think that this is only about money and who should pay the costs. However, having our government ensuring access to health care is akin to government's appropriate role in protecting our inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Life: Access to health care by itself saves lives. A 2009
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Liberty and happiness: Living in fear of the next illness, or carefully avoiding sports or ladders because the next accident could bankrupt you or your family, is not freedom. The guarantee to life and liberty is a mutual promise from every citizen to every citizen. We the people must have each other's backs.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has had many detractors. Health care is very expensive, and the complexity of the delivery of care has meant that some have borne too much of the cost, or received too little of the care. Both the fairness and the protections of the ACA should be improved. But the
Health care helps every family, every business, every school, every individual perform at their best. The protection of every citizen requires investment from the entire community. Fragmenting care fragments our community.
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Do we choose to have more American children suffering? More adults dying? Do we really want a sicker, more frightened America? The
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