Photo“Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated.” So declared Donald Trump three weeks before wimping out on his promise to repeal Obamacare. And that refusal to think seriously about how health care works is the fundamental reason Mr. Trump and his allies in Congress now look like such losers. But put politics aside for a minute, and ask, what could be done to make health care work better going forward? The Affordable Care Act deals with the fundamental issue of health care provision in two ways. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThe point, however, is that building on Obamacare wouldn’t be hard, and wouldn’t even be all that complicated.

Source: New York Times March 27, 2017 07:18 UTC