As a longtime family medicine practitioner, I can’t agree more with Mr. Reid’s assessments of the state of our health care system. I have experienced health care from my practice as part of an HMO in Wisconsin, and in a hospital system in Raleigh, NC. Our “system” has done such a poor job of allocating its resources and has sacrificed so much to generate profit for the insurance and pharmaceutical corporations. The question is: How do we develop the political will to overcome these deep pockets to change the system? Victor Fuch’s article in the November issue of JAMA makes a very compelling case for a national health plan.1
Jeff Keil, MD
Cary, NC