Comments on: I can’t figure out how the Obama Health Plan will really fix our medical system. http://twothirdsdone.com/2009/08/22/i-cant-figure-out-how-the-obama-health-plan-will-really-fix-our-medical-system/ thoughts of a 67 year old boy Tue, 22 May 2012 06:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Eli Glazer http://twothirdsdone.com/2009/08/22/i-cant-figure-out-how-the-obama-health-plan-will-really-fix-our-medical-system/#comment-2344 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:45:29 +0000 http://twothirdsdone.com/2009/08/22/i-cant-figure-out-how-the-obama-health-plan-will-really-fix-our-medical-system/#comment-2344 Atul Gawande in his June 1, 2009 article in the New Yorker makes a good a case for the insanity of today’s “system”. I am covered by Medicare, the VA, a private company based supplement and subsidized insurance in another country where I own an apartment. The best care I have gotten (including major surgery) is in the VA and in the other (socialist) country.

We pay twice per ca pita for health care with a lesser outcome than France, Canada or Germany. The supporters of the status qua justify their views by parroting Obama’s opponents. I find it amazing that folks who wanted Terri Schivo to live as a vegetable forever against her husbands wishes are content to allow 47 million to go without health coverage.

While all of Avram’s suggestions are good, the real issue is “does the party that won the last election have what it takes brake the paralysis of the current health care dilemma?”

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