Health Costs, Regardless of Your Politics

Dr. Emanuel is correct that no Americans, including liberals, can ignore escalating health care costs. Unfortunately, this is exactly what he and the rest of the Obama administration did in passing the Affordable Care Act.

To obtain the cooperation of important stakeholders — the American Medical Association, the American Hospital Association and major pharmaceutical companies — in achieving the laudable goal of expanding coverage, our dysfunctional, inefficient and exceedingly expensive system was left intact. Read more....