We all know health care needs reform. But legislation pending in the U.S. Senate is not the right remedy.
The doctor-patient relationship is at the heart of quality care. Yet the bill in the Senate undermines this principle, expanding the role of the federal government in health care decisions and empowering it with the authority to impose penalties on doctors and patients.
The current Senate bill also jeopardizes patient access to the physician of your choice.
While many are under the mistaken impression that the entire physician community is supportive of the Senate bill, organizations representing hundreds of thousands of specialists have gone on record opposing the Senate proposal and continue to push for health care reform that doesn't undermine the doctor-patient relationship as the current Senate package does.
We are united in our desire to improve health care. But in its rush to reform, the Senate must not destroy the doctor-patient relationship, nor set us on a path that could be harmful to our patients.
