Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

The Republican Agenda on Health Care

Those interested in the future of health care reform should definitely check out Andrew Sprung’s “what if?” piece on what Republicans would actually do if they had the chance after 2016.

February 10, 2014 at 4:43 PM UTC

By Jonathan Bernstein

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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Those interested in the future of health care reform should definitely check out Andrew Sprung's "what if?" piece on what Republicans would actually do if they had the chance after 2016. Sprung talks to three economists to get a sense of it. It's an outstanding article.

The first thing to note is that repeal is, in fact, dead. There's simply no way to go back to the status quo ante. And in fact, hardly anyone would want to, including conservative policy wonks.