He said that although each of the 2008 presidential candidates has proposals for health care reform, they are all defining the challenge narrowly as just a financing problem related to insurance.
“No candidate of either party has stepped up to honestly acknowledge the reality of fiscal limits,” he said.
“The very fact that none of these issues are a central part of the national political debate is evidence of the underlying failure in our current governance structure, of the diminishing capacity of our political system to allocate and manage public resources in a way that serves the larger public interest.
“It is an affirmation of the fact that we cannot solve this crisis by relying solely on our current legislative institutions.”
'We must demand that we get an actual health benefit for the public dollars we allocate for care.' DR. KITZHABER