For those who oppose health care reform of any kind, you should reade the New Yorker article by Atul Gawande, one of the emeging great thinkers on the heathcare scene. He opens his article with the following:
Health-care costs are strangling our country. Medical care now absorbs eighteen per cent of every dollar we earn. Between 1999 and 2009, the average annual premium for employer-sponsored family insurance coverage rose from $5,800 to $13,400, and the average cost per Medicare beneficiary went from $5,500 to $11,900. The costs of our dysfunctional health-care system have already helped sink our auto industry, are draining state and federal coffers, and could ultimately imperil our ability to sustain universal coverage.
You may read the whole artice by clicking the link below:
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/12/14/091214fa_fact_gawande?printable=true#ixzz0a4Ii9xTu
In other words the status quo will lead us to a diseaster unless the market intervenes in some positive way. Think about it!
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