Healthcare wasn't broken
Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 08:04
in Mathematics & Economics
The fierce battle over reform was based on the perception that Americans did not get good value for their money. That perception is wrong.The epic debate over President Obama's controversial individual health insurance mandate finally reaches the Supreme Court this month. Stripped of legal jargon, the administration's defense of the mandate — and the broader Affordable Care Act — boils down to this: The U.S. healthcare system was badly broken, so we had to fix it.