Posted on April 16, 2003
Would we create the current system of funding care?
Health Affairs
January/February 2003
The Road To Meaningful Reform: A Conversation With Oregon's John Kitzhaber
The first step is to call into question the basic inequities and
contradictions in our current health care system-the things we will not
openly defend.
by Jeff Goldsmith
John Kitzhaber, M.D., former governor of Oregon:
"Let's write a health care bill which describes the policy underlying the
current system and see how many votes we get for it."
Comment: Given what we now know, would we create our current system of
funding health care? Tweaking this system will never right the wrongs of our
current policies. Obviously we really do need comprehensive reform based on
sound policy.