Even the most expensive iPhone is a tiny fraction of what most people pay for health care every year. Giving up a $769 iPhone would not make health care any more affordable in a meaningful sense. “Smartphones are no longer a luxury,” said Michael Calabrese, director of the Wireless Future program at the New America Foundation. For many lower-income Americans, smartphones are the only realistic way to get online. In Chaffetz's view, health care seems to be lower down on the pyramid than cellphones.

Source: Washington Post March 08, 2017 13:42 UTC