If the discussion is so complex and emotional in a public matter like Medicare, how much more complex and emotional will it be in the murky and secretive arena of employer sponsored health care?
If the basic issue of equity is not adressed and if health care reform establishes another two tiered system, we will have failed.
We cannot allow health care reform to build another system like the current working of Medicare with gold plated private pay plans for some and barely adequate care for the many.
Even worse would be for health care reform to perpetuate our current employer based system in which the executives get more for paying less.
Should health care reform result in a system that perpetuates these iniquities, it will serve to alienate the poor and working classes and build resentments in an unprecented manner.
Health care reform must not only be inclusive, it must be equitable.
