Health Bill is By No Means a Done Deal!

I would not place a bet that ANY health care bill will pass. There are too many problems with too many different groups of people. I, at the moment, will not be unhappy since there is nothing about the bills in Congress that satisfy my wish to see health care reform. To think that the House bill only passed by five votes! There were a number of Democrats that could not vote for the bill even after the abortion restrictions.

I am a fan of Marcia Angell who has been critical of our healthcare system. Her latest comments on the House bill reflect my feelings entirely. Her strategy of how we could achieve a single payor system strikes me as both realistic and hopeful. Her focus on strengthening primary care while placing more cost cutting restrictions on specialists is important. Placing on the emphasis on the need to insure everyone without other considerations of reforming health care itself will only provide more profits for insurance companies.