The Quality Cure ?

Corporations, consumers, the uninsured and doctors had all been clamoring for reform, and the question of why the project failed has nagged at Cutler ever since, especially as the problems have continued to worsen. In the years since he left Washington, which was in 1994, the ranks of the uninsured have surged, from 35 million people to 45 million. There are also serious gaps in the quality of care, and there is a deep dissatisfaction with the way the system functions -in how it seems to make adversaries of patients, doctors and insurers, for instance. Arguably, Americans want health-care reform more urgently than anything else.