Marcia Angell

Marcia Angell: Opposing "Health Insurance Reform", Supporting Reforming Health Care

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 11:09pm — mass

Marcia Angell, former Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, doesn't like where health insurance reform is going. She claims the current reforms being discussed by the White House and Democrats in Congress(clearly, Republicans are too busy creating Obama's Waterloo moment to worry about the rapidly rising cost of health care, much less the plight of the uninsured and underinsured) amount to "throwing good money after the bad". Angell makes a strong argument for reforms by targetting what doesn't work, and building on what does. She lays out the argument opposing current proposals for health insurance reform from the left of the left of the left.

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