Now a follow-up question: Is the best way to address either of these crises to spend the next five years constantly uprooting and replanting health insurance systems, and letting health care consume every hour of debate? Certainly health care is connected to both of them, because everything is always connected. Conservatives will point out that the way health care costs eat into paychecks is part of the story of stagnation. If they want to go big in 2020, they could run on wage subsidies and public works, not another disruptive health care vision. Health care reform was the Barack Obama presidency’s main achievement, but it crippled his administration politically once it passed.

Source: New York Times September 23, 2017 18:58 UTC