“Health Care on Hold” - from the Philadelphia Inquirer

On April 5th, the editors of the Philadaelphia Inquirer gave their view on the show-down on health care in the Pennsylvania Senate.  Below are two excerpts.

"Thousands of Pennsylvania doctors have been shown to a seat in the waiting room next to the state's 800,000 uninsured adults.  Maybe together they can get better attention from the Republican-led state Senate. 

"Physicians and the uninsured have a shared stake in seeing the end of an apparent grudge match that has Senate leaders blocking Gov. Rendell's efforts to expand health care for poor and low-paid Pennsylvanians." 

"Doctors should find it odd that Senate leaders . . . are being supported by the Pennsylvania Medical Society and the hospitals' trade group.  With billions more in aid being offered to them, physicians have to be asking themselves why their mouthpieces are taking the wrong side in this health-care reform debate."