Speaker For The Diodes - June 26th, 2009

Jun. 26th, 2009

05:25 am - QotD

[Story of a young cancer patient facing diffucult choices follows.]

-- from the PBS television program, Charlie Rose, 2009-04-01

Charlie Rose:   "What would you choose if you were designing the [national health care] program?"
 
Dr. Atul Gawande:   "I would choose the plan we can find a compromise agreement on. As a physician who has had to deal Medicare and had to deal with Medicaid and had to deal with private insurers, they all drive me crazy. But even worse are my uninsured patients. [...]"

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