All of the inefficiencies in the delivery of health care in this country might be at least tolerable if it weren't so costly on the user end. And conversely, I really don't think that making our health-care delivery more efficient (with electronic record-keeping, etc.), in and of itself, is going to give people a greater sense of confidence when they visit their physician when they know it's going to cost them $19,000 for a colonoscopy or whatever. Because, whether efficiently run or not, our system of health care, as currently constituted, bankrupts hundreds of thousands of Americans each year. The Affordable Care Act, regrettably, doesn't do anything to correct that. So, failure.
Unless by "not-failure" you mean mandating young people to spend thousands of dollars a year with money they don't have for services they don't often need. Yes, this means they'll have health-care coverage, but it also means that (a) they'll never be able to save for anything else in their lives, and (b) they'll go bankrupt more quickly once they get older. So, success!
---Baron V
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