The Huffington Post—January 25, 2010
by Helene Pavlov, M.D., FACR, Radiologist-in-Chief at Hospital for Special Surgery
Despite this, however, the healthcare reform proposals are still not clear to me and seem to be swayed by political posturing from every side of this extremely complex issue. Healthcare reform, if and how it is enacted, will touch our sense of well-being. It will affect how we deal with the inevitable questions of life including quality of life, morbidity and death. It will ultimately touch everyone.
That being said, when I listen to the direction of the proposed policies, the special interest groups and their lobbyists and the "deals" being formulated to get the task accomplished, I cannot help but think that the reform bill is forgetting the underlying problem and the need for reform.
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