Obama’s Health Plan, Ambitious in Any Economy, Is Tougher in This One

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/us/politics/02health.html?scp=2&sq=robert-pear&st=cse

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:16 PM
Subject: re: Obama’s Health Plan, Ambitious in Any Economy, Is Tougher in This One
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

   Americans have never been able to afford our current healthcare system, whether in the good times when president Clinton proposed to reform it or in the current crisis. Two big flaws make it unworkable. The first is one of priorities; we currently spend more than half of our healthcare dollars prolonging the last weeks of dying rather than in improving the health of the living. The second is one of mechanics; our system today is run for the profit of the insurance companies and their lobbyists. This is no time to timidly cling to a status quo that doesn't work. President Obama came in with a mandate for change. It's time.

Barry Levine