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From: barry levine
Date: Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:45 AM
Subject: re: The Day After
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
From: barry levine
Date: Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:45 AM
Subject: re: The Day After
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
The passage of the current healthcare act is cause for some pride, but we cannot be satisfied. This act has changed the way Americans are insured without changing our healthcare system. Currently, we pay 17% of our GNP in healthcosts. That's more than anyone anywhere has ever paid since the invention of money, and--unless we change the system--it will grow to devour our entire economy. As long as American doctors are "paid to stick in more tubes", they will stick in more tubes, run more scans, perform more surgeries, keep that heart beating another week even after the life is over. We need a healthcare system that puts our resources where our values are. That's not in prolonging dying.
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