Modern Healthcare February 10, 2018
Everyone should have access to healthcare. No one disputes that. But what does it mean? Is access defined by the right to have your healthcare needs met without sending you or your family into bankruptcy?
Or should the right of access be limited to the ability to purchase cheap, catastrophic coverage without the requirement that you do so?
Until we build a bipartisan consensus that access means everyone in our society has the right to obtain high-quality healthcare at an affordable price, we will never move beyond the sterile “repeal and replace” debate. We don’t debate whether children should get a high school education. We provide taxpayer-financed public schools to achieve it.
Does that mean taxpayers must pay for everyone’s...