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Don't get me wrong - I am hardly the quintessential political insider. I went to Washington leaning toward a single-payer, Canadian-style plan as best for the United States. I left strongly convinced that some form of government-sponsored, state- administered single-payer system is the best way to provide universal coverage for a basic package of services at an affordable price to every American

OK, you may now all exhale. The president has finally delivered himself of his thoughts on health care. Whatever else he achieved with his superb speech, he did succeed in bringing to an end the longest period of national collective breath-holding since NASA aimed a contraption with some humans strapped on top at the moon

NOW that the broad outline of President Clinton's health-care plan has emerged, it is important to understand what sorts of obstacles, roadblocks and potholes the plan will encounter as it wends through Congress

Few in the room seemed to be listening as a VA official spoke quietly, but what he said was worth heeding. The VA system, he said, is the biggest government sponsored health-care system in the world. It has a bigger budget than the entire British National Health Service. There is delicious irony in the fact that Congress, the U.S. military and its veterans all get their health-care from a single-payer system

Do you need to listen to any of this blather? Nope. Oddly enough, the proof that the president's plan can work is sitting in the Pacific Ocean. The state of Hawaii already has the system the president wants to create for the rest of us

Do you need to listen to any of this blather? Nope. Oddly enough, the proof that the president's plan can work is sitting in the Pacific Ocean. The state of Hawaii already has the system the president wants to create for the rest of us

Sometimes, liver transplant surgery doesn't work. And it is not at all unusual for a second liver transplant to fail. But what was especially troubling about the death of this woman is that she died because she was a participant in a medical experiment

About the time the doctors at Philadelphia's Children's Hospital took the 7-week-old Lakeberg twins to surgery, I had just finished giving a speech about health-care reform to the European Society for the Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care meeting in Oslo, Norway. The society is basically the trade organization for those in Western Europe who work in the field of medical ethics