Health Affairs, 27, no. 3 (2008): 619-620 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.27.3.619 © 2008 by Project HOPE	New Online   Pay Cuts For Medicare Docs   Access To Care Woes   Public Coverage More Efficient   Empowering Consumers

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From the Editor

The Health Care Rubik’s Cube

THE FUNDAMENTAL DILEMMA of health policy is that the system is so interdependent that apparently no one part can be fixed without fixing them all. But efforts to change the system as a whole, to finance insurance expansion by reducing waste, or to improve quality by restructuring delivery arouse the sleeping dogs of health care. Each economic interest group knows its own interest and knows how to make the slumbering mass of voters fear that change is more likely to be for the worse than for the better, and that the devil we know is better than the devil . . . [Full Text of this Article]

James C. Robinson, Editor-In-Chief

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