EDITORIAL: After GOP failure, the focus should turn to fixing Obamacare
The complexities of health care are difficult even for experts. Many Americans bought into false narratives that Obamacare was failing or imploding, even though that is far from true. It has struggled, yes, in part because half the
Despite that, the ACA's achievements have been notable. Medical bills once were the leading cause of personal bankruptcy in this country. Those figures, although still too high, have plummeted since the ACA was signed in 2010.
Americans have become accustomed to knowing their policies will cover their adult children still in school or just starting out in the workforce; that their own health coverage will continue even if they change jobs and insurers, because they can no longer be priced out over pre-existing conditions. Substandard policies that take people's money but fail to cover what's wrong with them became a relic.
Americans have made it clear through their widespread rejection of the
Most disastrous of all would be President
That is contemptible and jaw-dropping in its irresponsibility. Health care constitutes about one-sixth of the massive
Despite years of complaining, and endless theatrical repeal votes, it is evident that
They must jettison the mind-set that last month led Senate Majority Leader
Get to work and fix health care. This country has hard discussions ahead about how to lower costs while preserving access. Americans can deal with the reality that any comprehensive, sustainable health reform worthy of the name must do both. They should settle for no less.
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