Health Care Wonks Turn to 2016
Even before the midterm election that’s likely to turn heavily on Obamacare, health care wonks from both parties are already thinking ahead, taking the first early cracks at health care ideas the next White House candidates can use.
But the challenges will be starkly different for the two parties. For the Democratic candidates—whether it’s Hillary Clinton or anybody else—the question isn’t whether they should support the Affordable Care Act. It’s an article of faith that they will. Instead, they’ll have to develop their own, distinctive health care agenda that builds on it, by laying out the next steps in health care reform and recommending fixes to the law’s problems, according to Democratic health care experts.
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