Fewer choices, higher premiums require health reform

Remember this promise from President Obama to sell his signature health care law to the American people: If you like your health care plan, you can keep it.

You might remember that it earned the distinction as PolitiFact’s “Lie of the Year” in 2013 after millions of Americans’ plans were cancelled. Even former President Bill Clinton recently called the Affordable Care Act (ACA) “the craziest thing in the world.”

Broken promises have become the new normal with the ACA, and the people paying the price are regular Americans.

The latest news is that in the 2017 plan year, premiums will rise in Was...