Unneeded surgery "is an enormous scandal, white-coat crime asfaras I amconcerned, and it is just being ignored, " says Charles Inlander of the consumer group People's Medical Society.
The Healthy Americans Act I am currently co-sponsoring represents a complete break with the past asfaras legislative initiatives are concerned--the past is nibbling around the edges of the current system--and this act says we are going to break with the current system by changing the tax laws and allowing the individual to purchase their own plan.