Reform Medicare first before focusing on the uninsured

Maggie Mahar continues her excellent analysis on the obstacles to health care reform:

Many reformers focus single-mindedly on getting everyone insured, but Americans don’t need health insurance; they need healthcare. By reforming Medicare we can take a huge step in the right direction, fight the fragmentation and inefficiency of the current system, and undermine the political power of the for-profit lobbyists.

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