| Health Care in Three Acts
Cohen, Eric; Levin, Yuval
Commentary, Feb 2007, v123, #2; pp47-54
"Americans say they are very worried about health care: on generic lists of voter concerns, health issues regularly rank just behind terrorism and the Iraq war. And politicians are eager to do something about it. To empower consumers, the White House has advanced the idea of Health Savings Accounts; to help the uninsured, it has explored using Medicaid more creatively..." This article discusses health care in America. Public opinion polls show that health care is an extremely important issue for many voters, and many politicians are attempting to bring health care to everyone. While the problem seems simple enough on the surface, actually insuring every American citizen would cause many dilemmas. Eric Cohen is the editor of the New Atlantis and director of the program in Bioethics and American Democracy at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C. Yuval Levin is a fellow at the Center, formerly served on the White House domestic-policy staff and as chief of staff of the President's Council on Bioethics.
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