The Untold Story of the

U.S. Healthcare Crisis

News reports go on and on about how healthcare costs are spiraling out of control. High-cost drugs, expensive research and new technologies, shortages of nurses and other healthcare professionals, skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates and judgments, "defensive" medical practice, all are part of the mantra.

If healthcare costs are rising, why have your reimbursements held steady or decreased? Why do you have to work so much harder just to stay even?

There is no question that our healthcare system begs for reform. The question is, how, and by whom, will it be reformed? Let’s start by educating the public about who’s winning and who's losing.

“Our healthcare system is broken. Business as usual is compromising the best of what makes the U.S. healthcare system a model of innovation and progress. It is eroding an industry that is critical to the health of our economy, and it prevents us from providing access to high-quality health care for all Americans."

former U.S. Senator David Durenberger

Chairman, National Institute of Health Policy

What's Up, Doc? Healthcare Costs or Healthcare Spending?

As the population ages, healthcare reform will be the most important public policy debate we will be involved in. Health spending already accounts for more than 15 percent of Gross Domestic Product; more than $5,600 per person in 2003 (most recent annual data).

How doctors represent themselves in this debate has never been more important. If doctors want their story told accurately, they must speak out. Again and again, using every medium. We are organizing physicians in South Texas now. We guarantee your voices will be heard.

...more to come