Michael Lee
Guest Columnist
Michael Lee
Guest Columnist
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Lee: For better health care reform
We live in a world in which health reform has been widely misunderstood by partisans on both sides. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has been demonized as promoting euthanasia and a government takeover, while it’s been lionized as a solution to rising costs and promoting universal access. Actually, PPACA centers around a very simple idea: that insurance companies must offer the same policies — with the same services and premiums — to anybody regardless of their health status. While they may charge different rates for age, they cannot charge different rates to, say, diabetics or cancer patients. Nor may they exclude those conditions. Of course, this suggests the obvious problem: Why wouldn’t you wait until becoming ill before buying health insurance?