Connie Schultz: Dr. Chris Lillis, of Doctors for America, offers an eloquent attempt to dial back the rhetoric around the Affordable Care Act, and explains why it matters: The Affordable Care Act will improve our health care system so long as it is allowed to work and provided some help in properly achieving implementation. I am privileged in my career to have been witness to the most affluent and high tech care in the Duke Medical Center Intensive Care Units and the most impoverished care on the trauma surgery service at the District of Columbia’s General Hospital. After taking care of thousands of patients in my lifetime, and immersing myself in health policy in the last 5 years, I want to see the Affordable Care Act succeed. Success will depend on advocates like Doctors for America sticking with this effort – learning about loopholes and problems and applying the proper fixes to the law. This has a long tradition in our great nation. After Medicare’s passage in 1965, there have been both major and minor changes to the program every year to make it better. The Affordable Care Act has the same potential to improve year-after-year. The Affordable Care Act is here to stay, but without better public education and understanding, the effectiveness of the law is in jeopardy. It would be foolish to abandon this critical law simply because a website is temporarily not functioning. A website can be fixed.
Posted on: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 15:04:57 +0000
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