It's time to start new chapter in health care

After nine months of debate over repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, it’s time to start a new chapter in the history of access to high quality and affordable health care.

The ACA certainly isn’t perfect. A bipartisan Senate effort to address some of its imperfections was underway until Republican leaders pulled the plug to devote more attention to the latest – and hopefully final – attempt to repeal and replace the 2010 law.

It’s time to reignite that bipartisan discussion and affect some immediate changes.

Most important is stabilization of the individual insuran...