Are Healthcare Access and Quality Compatible? Insights from Peer Countries

The Debate About Healthcare Reform in the U.S. Is Dysfunctional The current debate about health reform in the U.S. highlights conflicting structural initiatives—Medicare for all, Medicare for all who want it, adding to the Affordable Care Act, cutting back on the Affordable Care Act, ad infinitum. The likelihood that our current debate will reach broad agreement and, in turn, encourage stakeholders to collaborate across the country to implement any initiative, is close to zero. How do we get out of this impasse?