Toward a more patient-centered healthcare system

Published January 10, 2017 5:04am ET



For the past six years, my congressional office has received calls, emails, letters, meetings and visits from Eastern Kansans detailing the disastrous effects the president’s failed healthcare law – the Affordable Care Act – has had on their families and small businesses.

I have heard from Kansans about their premiums increasing by 51 percent and even going up more than 300 percent. And while these Kansans are being forced to pay extremely expensive health premiums, other Kansans have notified my office that their healthcare plans are being canceled.

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