A 10-Step Guide to Fixing Health Care

If Americans can rally behind these common sense health care reforms, we can finally fix our broken system.

Leading political voices in the United States are using their position of trust in ways that injure many Americans. Citizens rely upon journalists and politicians to act as valves of communication into and out of Washington, D.C. However, on the pressing issue of health care reform, Americans’ representatives in media and in Congress are bucking their roles as defenders of the people.

You might expect that on health care, journalists would be straightforward with their reporting on proposed market reforms, while congressmen would tout premium-lowering bills in speeches to their constituents. After all, the average American has a huge financial stake in the affordability of health care, and health insurance premiums are a top priority for the embattled Americans who elected Donald Trump in 2016. However, this is not the case.

Instead, journalists are covering health care reform as if it were a Greek drama, emphasizing death wishes for John McCain, White House cabinet shufflings, and GOP in-fighting.