Editorial series: Rehabilitating Healthcare

GOP candidates in California oppose the new law, but their alternatives aren’t reform.

Senate Republicans chose politics over substance in dealing with the reconciliation bill.

Legal challenges aimed at overturning the reform law are divisive and should be rejected.

House passage of a comprehensive reform bill puts the nation on the path to universal health insurance.

The Democrats’ reform legislation isn’t perfect. But it’s a good -- and necessary -- start.

Obama made a compelling case for reform. How it’ll be paid for, though, is another matter.

There are limits on care now, and no reform will change that. But that’s not an excuse to do nothing.

Higher taxes on the wealthy and businesses send the wrong message to America’s middle class.

More primary-care physicians, treatment standards and electronic medical records would help.

Expanding coverage would be expensive, but it would deliver benefits over time.

The way to cut costs is to base payments on medical outcomes rather than pouring money into individual medical services.

There is fundamental agreement about what needs to be fixed: rising costs, questionable quality of care, and holes in coverage.

A key concession by insurers may lead to real progress. As always, though, the devil is in the details.