An email from my son, Matt, this morning: ”Great one paragraph summary:”
He was referring to today’s WSJ op-ed by Jeffrey S.Flier, Dean of the Harvard School of Medicine who has had to contend with Romney’s Massachusetts health care system and now faces Obamacare. Here’s the paragraph:
Our health-care system suffers from problems of cost, access and quality, and needs major reform. Tax policy drives employment-based insurance; this begets overinsurance and drives costs upward while creating inequities for the unemployed and self-employed. A regulatory morass limits innovation. And deep flaws in Medicare and Medicaid drive spending without optimizing care.
The full article is worth reading.
Tom Motherway
Tom Motherway