As we move into the debate over the legislative agenda for the next two years, Health Care will be made a huge issue. It may only be in the guise of Medicare or Social Security reform, but the real issue of how to deal with the problems of delivering medical care will be burbling beneath the surface, and a national case could ignite a furious backlash against the HMO's that may do substantial damage to a system that has promise but is too ruled by cost-cutting decisions in back rooms and policies of universal denial to claims. This article deals with an issue that I haven't seen advanced anywhere in the main-stream media. I think it's an interesting idea to have a kind of medical SEC, but it would difficult to get through congress as its opponents would decry the new "commission" as nothing more than larger government and heavily misguided spending. It's an argument more about sound-bite than substance, but it has resonance.
- posted by levinson @ 12/18/2000 08:37:00 AM