We believe that the Affordable Health Care Act will provide health care coverage for those previously without health insurance and added protections for those who have, but we do not have high hopes of it reigning in costs and improving the overall quality of care.
We already have a perfectly good health care system that efficiently serves a significant portion of our population: Medicare. It could have been expanded and funded through a Value Added Tax, as is done in Canada and in other countries.
This would have removed the burden from businesses, brought health care expenditures in line with other advanced nations by reducing costs by as much as a third, and vastly improving the health of the nation, bringing the USA in line with other advanced economies.
Unfortunately, long entrenched vested interests prevent any such sensible reform.
