Healthcare will come in some form

There are lots of wonderful and insightful comments and graphs regarding the healthcare crisis! More educated people = more critical thinking, that's great!!! What is really missing from the equation is a willingness for people to do work to help those who deserve proper care. There are plenty of queens, and not enough worker bees. Most are in it for self advancement. Patient's care seems to be far down the list of priorities. IF this was the top priority, than the other areas, like affordability, efficiencies, and cost, will fall in place. One real world example is rehabilitation. This is an area where private insurers and Medicare have trimmed costs, and patients therapy suffers as a result. Little is done within the healthcare profession to change the way it operates since walking activities are not considered medically necessary. Explain that to the 1000s of thousands who are confined in their beds, who may otherwise choose recovery if given the opportunity to recover. This is a very visible area in healthcare that gets ignored. This is because those in charge of implementing any type of reform would be only hurting their own self interested financial gains by changing a system that rewards them. If this one example shows us what is occurring, than why is any other area of healthcare (that is less visible) going to be motivated to change? I totally agree that it all starts with an efficient healthcare system. My experience, in working with the healthcare industry for 20+ years, is that everyone likes the idea of removing inefficiencies just as long as it is not from their area of practice. If something as fundamental as helping people walk again is met with much resistance, then how can the many of the unproven processes that are proposed going to be implemented? It comes down to implementation by the people willing to do work, who are already benefiting from the inefficiencies. Those people are not going to cut off the hands that pay them!