Health Affairs July 24, 2019
Jack Meyer

The debate over the future of the US health care system has entered a fact-free, extremist zone that will continue to impede progress toward the critically important goals of moving to universal health coverage, improving the quality of care and patient safety, and controlling the growth of total health spending. The polarization of the health care debate will leave us in gridlock and block any bipartisan approaches to universal coverage that can be enacted and implemented.

The US can protect the Affordable Care Act (ACA) from continued attack, address its limitations, and build on it with strong additional measures that can move us to universal coverage. The approach presented here is a constructive alternative to the Trump administration’s attempts to...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), CMS, Congress / White House, Govt Agencies, Healthcare System, HHS, Insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Provider, Public Exchange, Regulations, Trends
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