First read the good doctor's op-ed in today's Washington Post: "If I were a senator, I would not vote for the current health-care bill. Any measure that expands private insurers' monopoly over health care and transfers millions of taxpayer dollars to private corporations is not real health-care reform. Real reform would insert competition into insurance markets, force insurers to cut unnecessary administrative expenses and spend health-care dollars caring for people. Real reform would significantly lower costs, improve the delivery of health care and give all Americans a meaningful choice of coverage. The current Senate bill accomplishes none of these." http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Howard is correct, this bill does not do what it purports to do. I could accept universal coverage without the cost reforms as an incremental step. I could even grudgingly accept cost reforms first without the universal coverage. But this bill seems to be sausage making at it's worst - it does not give us universal coverage and it does not give us cost reforms. This bill is not what we fought for!
