The crash landing of the ObamaCare repeal and replace measure in no way means this country is done attempting to increase access, enhance quality and control the costs of healthcare. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) extends healthcare coverage to more Americans, but the strength (and even solvency) of America’s economy demands that the current political debate focus on real affordability in addition to access and taxes. Stat.
Neither of the Republican alternatives focus on controlling the cost of healthcare. In fact, both have provisions that will increase costs. Yet with spending approaching 20 percent of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product the cost of healthcare and the lack of affordability are virtually bankrupting individuals as well as the three levels of government.
Republicans and Democrats have taken unfair advantage of states in enacting the ACA and proposing alternatives. The Democrats did it in their traditional way and mandated that all states expand Medicaid essentially forcing states to pay a huge amount of their own revenues on the expansion of low-income healthcare. (This was before the Supreme Court made the expansion optional).
Read more at:
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/healthcare/344592-states-can-finally-slay-the-healthcare-cost-dragon-that-is
