We need first to tackle the basic issues of health insurance. Preexisting conditions and other inequities. Do individuals get treated like groups? Are groups all treated the same? What is the range of insurance costs attributed to people of different ages? Ultimately, we must get everyone an affordable ticket to the health care arena. That’s what the fight is about. Then we need to manage our resources better.
Why our health care system is so wonderful and so dysfunctional is an immensely complex tale that is of immediate political importance to understand. Introduction to a planned series of reports.
The AMA opposes including a publicly run health insurance plan in reorganization of US health insurance. We at Orchard Health Care strongly feel precisely the opposite, that an available public plan is critical for any reform plan to succeed.
Tom Daschle avoided or evaded substantial taxes for free use of a car and driver. Do you think that behavior is acceptable in the leader who is supposed to revamp our entire health care system?
Jim Lehrer reported on the massive problems in primary care in Massachusetts in a piece on the News Hour on Jan 6, 2009.