“Suppose that instead of looking at healthcare policy as a means to push an ideology or score political points, we examine it from a pragmatic American vantage point. What works? What does not work? What backfires? Those are the good, the bad, and the ugly, respectively. The table below summarizes our experience in terms of three goals of healthcare policy: improving access to care; improving the quality of care; and lowering the cost of our healthcare system.” (11/28/07)