"Serving the Medical-Industrial Complex" by Robert Parry (6-22-09 Consortium News) [View All]

"The usual knock on government programs is that they're not as efficient as the private sector, which we're told can provide the same product for less money and with higher quality. Thus, it should be no big deal when the public and private collide because the private sector should prevail.

However, in providing health insurance, those rules clearly don't apply, which is why congressional Republicans and so-called "centrist" Democrats are going to such lengths to deny the American people access to a public option on health insurance."

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/062209.html

There MUST BE a public option, that's where I'm at-what are your views on this? Fwiw, just visiting a hospital is one of the leading causes of death in The United States of America. We may be #1 in medical education, but we are currently hostage to our "medical-industrial complex".