"To The Editor" Letter

This is what I wrote to several newspaper editors and political figures several days ago:

Health insurers, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals and durable medical equipment suppliers have prospered in the last ten years as our citizens have struggled to obtain affordable, accessible, high quality health care. Bureaucratic roadblocks (insurers), excessive prices charged in the United States (pharmaceuticals), monopolization of hospital facilities (for-profit and regional systems) and marketing of expensive questionably necessary equipment ("scooters") threaten to bankrupt our nation without reducing infant mortali ty, death from breast cancer, or improving real health quality. As our next step, we need evidence-based health services, elimination of wasteful franchises, meaningful competition and elimination of government-expensed high-profit low value equipment gimmicks. Who will take the lead and when will the agenda be drafted and accomplished?