Why is overhauling the healthcare system so important?
We can’t not do healthcare reform because healthcare costs are breaking families, businesses, and the federal government. So if we don’t do significant healthcare reform, we’re on a catastrophic course. What that means is that we have to put a lot of effort into not just expanding coverage but in reducing the cost of healthcare, taking out the sort of redundancies and waste and inside trading and so on that have contributed to this untenable inflation in healthcare costs for two decades. And so that’s how he approaches this. The truth is that our healthcare system works for a lot of Americans, albeit it’s now threatened for them by these runaway costs, so his idea is that we build on what works in the healthcare system and fix what’s broken. George Tiller, a doctor who performed abortions in Kansas, was murdered last month. How will this affect the abortion debate? Obviously it was a tragic thing, and the president spoke to it yesterday. This runs completely counter to the thrust of hi
