Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Changes Wrought By Health Reform? Well, Maybe Not - Kaiser Health News

By Jonathan Cohn, Senior Editor of The New Republic

During the past few weeks, employers, insurers, and providers of medical care have frequently made news by talking about how reform might change the way they do business. Each time, critics of the Affordable Care Act have insisted it was bad news. Each time, the true story has been a lot more complicated.

Maybe the obfuscation is unintentional. Health care policy is pretty complicated, after all. So, for the sake of my friends at Fox News and anybody who might be listening to them, here are three basic questions to ask every time you hear a story about changes the Affordable Care Act is unleashing:

1) Is something actually changing?
2) Is the change related to the Affordable Care Act?
3) Is the change really for the worse?
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