Dr. James Mitchiner, President of the Washtenaw County Medical Society, writing in the Ann Arbor News, analyzes the details of John McCain’s health-care proposal. Mitchiner’s concludes that McCain’s proposal will cost more and cover fewer Americans than other proposals for reform.
An excerpt
The time has come for us to stop pretending that we can reform American health care through incremental tweaks in the current system. I really see no way to accomplish the three goals of reform – expanded access, consumer choice and cost control – without ending the hegemony of the for-profit insurance industry.
This means we have to replace our shamefully inefficient multipayer system with a national, single-payer alternative, one that creates affordable access to medical care for those who are locked out, eliminates racial and ethnic disparities, and allows Americans (rather than insurers or the government) to choose their own physicians and hospitals. Doing so will not come fast and will not be easy. But when it does come, and I believe it will, the result will be well worth the effort expended.
Look before you leap into McCain’s idea of health coverage, Other Voices, The Ann Arbor News September 11, 2008 10:06AM
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