Today's Seattle Times reports on a group of physicians who seek to eliminate all forms of rationality from the US health care system:
The doctors back abolishing health-insurance companies in favor of a single-payer public-health plan, phasing out all for-profit hospitals and clinics and using tax money to give all Americans an insurance card entitling them to medical services and prescription drugs without copayments and deductibles.And maybe Santa Claus will pay for it all.
[John Geyman, professor emeritus of family medicine at the University of Washington] and his fellow authors are mounting a vigorous defense against what they called propaganda that equates national insurance with rationing and subpar medical quality.I'm sure he can dispel all that propaganda with reams of data from Canada and Britain. Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at August 13, 2003 11:27 AM