Where to Restart With Health Care

By now it has become clear that the Trump administration, much like its predecessor, imagined that its healthcare mission was to devise another universal insurance plan to optimally distribute limited health care resources (like Obamacare only better). But had the Administration's proposal actually passed, it would have likely guaranteed the GOP ownership of both old and new failures because the current occupants of both the Whitehouse and the Congress still fail to understand the difference between a health care crisis and a crisis in health care financing — a distinction that demands better medicine before better law.