Challenge to Health Bill: Selling Reform

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:12 AM
Subject: re: Challenge to Health Bill: Selling Reform
To: letters@nytimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/business/economy/22leonhardt.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=real%20challenge%20to%20health%20bill&st=cse

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To the Editor:

At $15,000.00/yr for every man, woman and child, Americans currently spend more on "healthcare" than anyone in the history of health or money. Covering the uninsured wouldn't add a dime to that; they're already counted in that average. What will change that is matching our spending to our values. Currently, we spend over sixty percent of our entire health budget in the last six weeks before death. Until we decide to spend our resources on the health of the living, rather than on prolonging dying, our medical sector will continue growing until it devours our entire economy.

Barry Levine