Friday, March 29, 2002

Molly Ivins, always one of our favorites, writes: Have you noticed that the health care system is not working? In fact, it's falling apart. And the most curious thing about that is how few of the people for whom the system still works - and they're the ones who make the decisions - are aware of it. Later in the same column, she quotes Dr. Rudolph Mueller: "It is a system wasteful beyond belief and manipulated by a lobby focused on providing the highest profits for their self-interest and investors, and mammoth cash flows to companies that should not exist or not be involved in health care. The system is also paying for an extremely large number of sick people who would not be sick under any decent universal health care system," writes Mueller. 5:10:06 PM