Modern Healthcare published an opinion piece by L.A. Care CEO John Baackes, entitled "Don’t scrap Obamacare. Fix it". The commentary talks about how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a good framework, but it definitely needs fixing.
Baackes offers several recommendations for change, pointing out that while opponents have tried to kill the ACA, they haven't proposed any replacement plan.
"Meanwhile those of us who work every day to make our healthcare system more responsive, affordable and comprehensible are shaking our heads in disbelief that people who know nothing about how healthcare works in the U.S. are rolling the dice on creating chaos for millions of Americans by repealing the ACA with no alternative or swapping the ACA for a single-payer system for which there are no details on how it would operate."
--John Baackes
CEO, L.A. Care