Americans are dying too young – due to health policy

The American public is being sold a bill of goods that enrolling everyone in government-approved health insurance – primarily managed care – will improve the nation’s health and close the troubling disparities between the health of black and white Americans. Former President Barack Obama made insurance coverage the signature issue of the Democratic Party.

Now Democrats in Congress are revving up for a fight to spend hundreds of billions of dollars more subsidizing managed care plans, while Republicans are opposed.