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

Lawmakers need to listen to people with chronic illnesses, who know all too well the damage that can come from unexpected changes to treatment plans caused by poorly thought-out drug…

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

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