Why Our Medical Care Costs So Much

This excellent article (NewYorker 6/22) written by best selling author and surgeon, Atul Gawande, details, with hard facts, the reason why our health care costs are so exorbitant and why they are devouring our national budget. Free markets need some controls or they run wild . Greed will often trump doing the right thing. Read this well written and absorbing article to understand how things have gone so wrong... http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_gawande