Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Jul 2017
Health reform, both real and conservative
11 July 2017 - The American health care system has two core problems. It’s the world’s most expensive, and it still leaves many people uninsured.
Congressional Republicans have not tried to solve either problem. They have instead offered a plan that cuts spending on the middle class and the poor, funnels the money into a tax cut for the affluent and masquerades as health policy.
One of the great shames of their approach is that a different one is available. Conservative health reform is not an oxymoron. Nor is bipartisan health reform. It’s possible to combine conservative and liberal ideas to cover more people while holding down costs.
