How conservatives are blowing it on health care

ObamaCare failed to truly rein in our nation's out-of-control health-care spending. This is a problem that demands conservative solutions

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Every member of Congress should be required to pass a test to demonstrate that they have read every word of "Bitter Pill," Steve Brill's astonishing 28-page TIME cover story, which uses the experiences of ordinary Americans to detail just how big a cluster you-know-what America's health-care system is. If you have not read it, it makes for heavy and highly emotional reading. You will be at times offended, at times confused, and at times just downright angry at the details that emerge. Most of all, the article is important because it explores, in considerable detail, the true source of our nation's fiscal problems: Health-care spending.

Conservatives in particular need to take notice of the problems that this article explores. Really, the GOP should treat each quandary like a math problem that needs solving. Put another way, the GOP must stop carping about ObamaCare and instead address all of the problems that the president's preposterously expensive piece of legislation did not sufficiently address. Intentionally or not, Brill tells a story that highlights the central problems that tomorrow's Republican Party must solve if it wants to reduce America's deficit and return our country to prosperity.

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Jeb Golinkin is an attorney from Houston, Texas. You can follow him on twitter @jgolinkin.