Hill June 24, 2021
Joe DeSantis

With ObamaCare surviving its third major legal challenge at the Supreme Court, Republicans are being offered a chance to redefine themselves on the issue of health care. They should seize this opportunity by expanding their focus beyond repealing and replacing ObamaCare and instead address the more fundamental problems with the American health care system. And there is no more fundamental problem than the simple fact that in this system, patients are not the customer, they are the product.

This may seem like a strange assertion. Surely, health care coverage, services, devices and medicines are the products, and the customers are the patients. But this is not true.

Employer plans account for 90 percent of the private health insurance...

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