Recommended - Death of US Health Care

I recommend Dick Morris's May 12 article Death of US Health Care in The Hill. He is right - the only realistic way to cut health care costs is to ration access to doctors, expensive drugs and medical procedures. Cheaper and universal health care sounds great as a political talking point, but when voters discover that it really translates to less health care for most of us, they will not be so happy.

Some years ago an acquaintance of ours in England suffered chest pains one night. The doctor was called, and he put her in line in England's universal health care plan to get an EKG in a couple of weeks. She died of massive heart failure that very night, well before the English health care system could even get her a simple EKG. Contrast that with my own experience in the US health care system - some years ago I called my doctor's office to complain of chest pains - they had me in his office hooked to an EKG machine within the hour, and in the hospital to receive a life-saving stent within 4 hours. Which system would you prefer to live under?