Hat tip to Bob Doherty
Disclosure: as a member of the ACP Board of Regents I know, like and respect Joe Stubbs. His wonderful op-ed piece is spot on – but I am a bit biased.
Shame on us all if we do nothing to fix health care
To be perfectly clear, the proposed health care legislation is not about rationing care, socialized medicine or death panels. To the contrary, instead of leading to “rationing,” Congress would fund research to provide my patients and me with objective clinical information, based on the best science available, to choose the most effective treatment among the many available ones. And, instead of promoting “death panels,” the bill empowers patients to decide how they want to be treated at the end of life. Patients would make these decisions in consultation with their doctors — not government employees.
Please read the entire op-ed
