Jane Bryant Quinn's column in the Nov. 8 Newsweek is a sobering reflection on health policy issues that attracted too little attention in this week's election.
"Big Medicine holds enough power to beat down true reform," she writes. "You can still be spooked by phrases like 'government-run health care,' even though that defines Medicare, which you want more of."
She questions whether the U-S will attempt a fundamental fix in the next Congress. "Nah," she answers. "Too many rich, corporate players have a stake in the status quo. Princeton's (economist Uwe) Reinhardt distills our chosen policy this way: the suffering of a few million Americans, while regrettable, is a price well worth paying for fine coverage for the rest of us...The healthy find private policies, the sick get kicked out. That's the American Way."
Posted by schwitz at November 4, 2004 01:28 PMSo true. I think that is why I have friends who just bought a house in canada
Posted by: Kevin at November 4, 2004 03:25 PM