Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883

Bipartisan healthcare fix misses the mark

America’s healthcare system is still a mess. The Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama’s signature legislative achievement, has sparked continued increases in premiums and deductibles while failing to bend the healthcare cost curve down as promised.

That’s just one of the assurances ACA supporters made about the new law it failed to keep. Obama was badly misinformed when he promised people co...