Getting There from Here: How should Obama reform health care?

New Yorker by Atul Gawande | Jan. 25, 2009 (Opinion)

In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty. The Canadians had stories like the 1946 Toronto Globe and Mail report of a woman in labor who was refused help by three successive physicians, apparently because of her inability to pay. In Australia, a 1954 letter published in the Sydney Morning Herald sought help for a young woman who had lung disease. She couldn’t afford to refill her oxygen tank, ... Full Story »

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by Kenneth Sibbett - Jan. 26, 2009

A very well researched report on the quality of heath care in the U.S. and around the world. While we pay more than any other country, we are 35th in the world, which is sickening. Now whose fault is that. Look no further than Washington D.C. The Drug companies wright the prescription laws, while the HMO's do the rest. With a Democratic President, congress, and Senate, things better change or it will be time to throw the new Bums out.

This article mentioned the Veteran care that is available to most Veteran's. I myself go to Veterans hospital, am I am proud to say the Military takes damn good care of their own. They also give out generic drugs. which are the same as High priced drugs. The military are allowed to negotiate the prices with drug companies and save million of dollars per year. Why can't You? Ask your Congressman or Senator if you can find them. They made the laws that We The People can't negotiate with drug companies for lower drug prices because they let the drug companies write the laws. Shamless.