Mon, 03/30/2009 - 1:17pm — DCblogger
Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part I
Dr. Rachel Nardin, who heads the Massachusetts chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program, noted that having health insurance was not the same as getting health care. Thirteen percent of people in the state who had insurance still could not pay for some health services, and 13 percent could not pay for their medicines, she said. Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, a professor at the Harvard Medical School, explained how the law encouraged the overuse of costly high-tech care while damaging the finances of safety-net hospitals.
The only thing I can suggest is to keep writing letters to the editor. The more we do that, the harder it gets to ignore us.
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