More Americans Delay Health Care

From the Wall street Journal we learn that an increasing array of Americans, many with health insurance, are delaying or forgoing medical care because of concern about cost, according to a report from the Center for Studying Health System Change. About 20% of the respondents in a 2007 survey of 18,000 people said that they had put off or gone without needed medical treatment at some point in the year earlier, up from 14% in a 2003 survey. Comment: The longer we wait to fix our disabled health care system the worse the problem will get. The experience in Massachusetts shows we cannot do this state by state, or just by increasing the reimbursement system.