Location can weaken understanding need for healthcare reform

“Hey, hey … Peter Rast has a letter to the editor in today’s paper!” I blurted out across the breakfast table this morning, to Mr. Maven. We know Peter from our days as collegues in the Nevada Wing of the Civil Air Patrol.

Peter is a well known and highly respected consultant and expert witness specializing in forensic engineering, accident reconstruction, and causation analysis. I’ve worked with him in Search and Rescue enough to know that he’s really, really sharp. He and I are about as far apart as humanly possible on the political spectrum, but I was still surprised to see the following:

Regulations are driving up costs

“I recently ran an old, rusty nail into my hand and needed attention.

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Get this: Healthcare denied is 'rationing'

The clueless wingers and the Libertarians keep filling the print and electronic echo chamber with the propaganda that any meaningful healthcare reform would inevitably lead to ‘rationing’ , which they inaccurately claim is the case in Canada.

Well, my husband and I experienced rationing last night, thanks to the current for-profit system.

It was the first time we’ve ever just given up and walked out of an emergency room.

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