"All their lives, blacks are told to work through the system to get a piece of the action, " says Morial, a civil rights lawyer and judge before his 1978 election.
Absent such a motivating factor, there was literally no good reason at all to rush such a poorly-researched piece of work into publication less than two months before the entire system is scheduled to change.
And finally -- now, there are all kinds of other aspects of it in terms of encouraging prevention and funding prevention, but the other big piece of this is we want to work through the Medicare and the Medicaid system to figure out how do we start controlling costs.