Fraud no reason to bail on fed-run health care :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Letters to the Editor

Fraud no reason to bail on fed-run health care :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Letters to the Editor

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Republican Rep. Peter Roskam's interesting article titled "Medicare fraud proves fed-run health care won't work" seems to be a red herring, designed to distract from the serious discussion of health care reform taking place in Washington.

Egregious as Medicare fraud may be, it doesn't explain why many European countries, with their government-operated systems, can provide better health care outcomes (longer lives, lower infant mortality, etc.) at lower overall cost than the American system.

As Mr. Roskam himself notes, there seem to be technical and law-enforcement solutions to those problem. One hopes the new administration pursues them more energetically than did the people who were in charge over the last eight years.