Opinion: Health care in 2025 — chaos, costs and controversy without progress

The year 2025 has been one of the most turbulent years in modern U.S. health care. The headlines were explosive, the rhetoric dramatic, and the controversies nonstop. Yet for all the hoopla and upheaval, the medical care Americans receive now, month in and month out, looks no better than what they experienced on Jan. 1 — but far more expensive.

Here are five areas of health care that generated chaos, confusion, and conflict in 2025 without meaningful improvement.

1. Political Chaos...