Americans' Health-Care Costs Are Too Damn High, Study Finds

[BeyondGeography]

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...But a continuation of present trends will lead influential constituencies to demand cost controls on the health-care sector with increasing vehemence. A Times interview with a bagel-shop owner in Utica, New York, named Anne Wadsworth is illustrative of where upper-middle-class health-care politics is trending.

“I was all on board for Obamacare,” she said, but it proved not to be “a long-term solution. It doesn’t lower the costs for people.”

Ms. Wadsworth is wary of the sweeping plans now proposed by the Democratic presidential candidates, which she worries will become a political football, like the Affordable Care Act, and fail to address the underlying issues.

“I just think health care costs need to go down,” she said.