Americans should not be deterred from working to improve our health care system despite difficulties with implementing the websites of the health insurance exchanges as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Our resolve for improved health care should be stronger than ever. The U.S. has the best doctors and nurses in the world, and they work very hard, but they work every day in a broken system.
We spend 40 percent more per capita on care than other countries, yet we do not provide coverage for all of our citizens. Our citizens rate our system lower than the people of other nations do, and now many of our outcomes are not as good as those in other developed countries that spend...