Opinion: Policymakers are taking the wrong approach to health care reform

Here’s what good health care looks like: it emphasizes prevention, is accessible and affordable, and puts patients’ needs first.

Unfortunately, recently proposed health care reforms from Congress don’t look like that at all. Instead, they seem to be leaving patients behind. Lawmakers in Washington are turning to overly complex alterations of the market and restrictive models of care that do little to directly help patients now. To get a clearer picture, they need to start listening to patients.

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