Question for the Houston Chronicle The editorial “Stiffed” made a single point about health care financing very well: U.S. citizens are not getting value for their money. Last Friday, the Health Museum of Houston hosted a congressional hearing presided over by U.S. Reps. Sheila Jackson Lee and John Conyers. At that hearing, a panel of experts in the field that included doctors, nurses, hospital CEOs, health care administrators and AFL-CIO leaders provided ample details on how our current system is broken. They discussed specific situations, viable solutions and detailed examples of how other countries fix the same problems with less money in a more efficient way and without excluding any citizens. A bill was announced to the audience: HR 676, which guarantees preventative and primary health care access to every single...
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