An Inside Look at Health Care for the Elderly and Medicare

What does the Trump presidency mean to the cause of health care reform? How will his pledge to dismantle and then rebuild the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare), and to leave Medicare alone and somehow watch it fix itself, impact doctors and patients and the entire fabric of our health care delivery system? Will he listen to fresh voices and consider sensible ideas to repair the health care mess, or will he rely on the same harried bureaucrats who are married to hospit

This week the top story in RealClearHealth was an article I wrote about the Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka Obamacare. The ACA has become political fodder as participating insurance companies announced rate hikes that average 25%. Donald Trump proclaimed that all the fault for this rate hike lies in the ACA itself. But how true is his accusation? In fact, what is dragging down the ACA is no different than what is decimating Medicare, many health care plans, and our entire