A Comment on the Health Care Reform

I think we need a health care reform which achieves the following:

• Improves health outcomes in the United States to the point that they are at least as good as those of other OECD nations,
• Reduce health care costs, or at least the rate of growth of health care costs to the nation so that they eventually are more nearly comparable with costs in other countries,
• Reduce the number of uninsured persons in the United States from nearly 50 million to no more than 8 or 10 million,
• Ideally improve the quality of care and reduce the amount of and amount spent on health services which do not improve health.

The Congress should be able to come up with a bill and the President to sign that bill that achieves those objectives. One hopes that it will be minimally disruptive to the arrangements that are valued by the majority of our citizens.