Health Affairs May 11, 2017
Billy Wynne

In my last Health Affairs Blog post, I outlined a potentially bipartisan four-step plan to move past the American Health Care Act’s (AHCA’s) disastrous framework toward a more stable, less expensive health care system. For those seeking incremental, near-term solutions, I hope those recommendations provide helpful guidance.

But the AHCA’s reckless drive through the US House of Representatives has taught us something about the current status of health care politics and may have opened the window to more significant, ultimately more successful, reforms. To put it mildly, the public is essentially fed up with debating how to realign the fragmented elements of our Rube Goldbergian system. Its machinations are too complex, its politics too fickle, and its rent is too...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), CMS, Congress / White House, Employer, Health System / Hospital, Healthcare System, HHS, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Primary care, Private Exchange, Provider, Public Exchange, Regulations, Self-insured
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