Build Foundation for Health Care on Medicare:
By Johnathon Ross M.D
Cleveland Plain Dealer
May 30 2010
Mrs. Brown (not her real name) was recently in to check on her blood pressure. She knows I've worked decades for a national health plan that would benefit individuals and businesses alike.
"So what do you think of the reform bill, Doc?" she asked, hoping I'd be pleased.
I replied with a question of my own: "Would you add a third floor to a house that has a crumbling foundation?" Because that is what Congress just did. The crumbling foundation is our private, for-profit, insurance-based system of financing health care...