Long-Term Care: the Key To Successful Health Care Reform
With all the shouting and animosity at town halls and on blogs, is it possible to find any common ground in the current debate around health care reform debate? One side argues that meddling in our market-based insurance system will limit consumer choices and cost a fortune. Another side contends that we’re heading for disaster if we don’t do something now to extend coverage to more people. In a sense, both sides are right. The current situation is clearly untenable: Around 16 percent of Americans have no health insurance, with that number growing as people lose jobs and benefits, and health care costs keep escalating. But trying to stretch existing dollars to c