Health Care Debate Has Changed In Three Ways, According To Opinion Piece
April 16, 2007 – 5:31 pm | posted in Public Health“It would be easy to fill a column with the ways in which the health care debate never changes,” but “three things are now apparent that — if not new — at least weren’t widely appreciated 15 or 20 years ago,” Wall Street Journal columnist David Wessel writes in an opinion piece. According to Wessel, the employer-based health insurance system is “slowly dying;” we do not “know as much about medical science as we need to know;” and “Americans want a lot of health care, are willing to pay for a lot of it and don’t like their choices limited.” Wessel concludes, “Complaints about the American health care system haven’t — yet — produced the political will to do something, particularly since that something will pinch some big interests and generate fierce opposition no matter what form it takes. Some things don’t change” (Wessel, Wall Street Journal, 4/12).
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