Well, the future of American health care is now controlled by lawyers. That may not be news – doctors, drug makers, and medical-device makers have long complained about the cost of lawsuits. But this different: The future of PPACA is in the hands of the Supreme Court.
Hundreds of lawyers billed thousands of hours analyzing and preparing briefs for the case. And that’s after countless hours spent by Congressional staff lawyers putting the bill together in 2009 and 2010.
The result? A “law” so confusing that even the legislators – themselves mostly lawyers – could not bother to even try to read it. It makes one think: If the lawyers are designing the health-care system, shouldn’t they be forced to operate under regulations similar to those they’re imposing?
Read the entire article at John Goodman's Health Policy Blog.
Research and commentary from a former senior executive in the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
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