U-Turn: America’s Return To State Healthcare Solutions

2017. The year in which America takes a U-Turn on health care policy. The new Congress and president promise to repeal and replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. How will they do it? And after reversing course, what direction will health care take? In articulating answers, U-Turn does not avoid the hard questions. What are workable solutions that over the needed flexibility and respect our federalist government structure? What solutions meet key challenges: the runaway cost of care, questions about quality of care, access to medical services for all residents, and the consensus that has emerged today to ensure coverage for those with pre-existing conditions? How can the United States grapple with exploding Medicaid and Medicare costs?