PrintJanuary 19, 2007
Health Insurance and "Adequate" Care
Health insurance is the key to adequate medical care. The standard of care supplied to those without insurance and lacking substantial means is perhaps "adequate" by some lights, but you wouldn't settle for it.I appreciate Steven M. Warshawsky's thoughts on the respective articles by Dr. Linda Halderman and me published by The American Thinker on Governor Schwarzenegger's proposed plan for universal health coverage in California, but I have to disagree entirely with his skepticism that there is anything wrong at all with the present health care system. Mr. Warshawsky seems to make the case that the problems with our health care system bemoaned by both supporters and critics of universal health coverage simply don't exist: The "problem" is not the lack of health insurance. The problem, if there is one, is a lack of adequate medical care. And there is no evidence that there is a significant problem in this country with a...(Read Full Article)
