“No candidate of either party has stepped up to honestly acknowledge the reality of fiscal limits, to address the long-term financial stability of the Medicare program, to challenge our current definition of a health care 'benefit,' or to discuss the difficult changes that will have to be made in our delivery system,” he said.
“The very fact that none of these issues are a central part of the national political debate is evidence of the underlying failure in our current governance structure, of the diminishing capacity of our political system to allocate and manage public resources in a way that serves the larger public interest. It is an affirmation of the fact that we cannot solve this crisis by relying solely on our current legislative institutions.”
'We cannot solve this crisis by relying solely on our current legislative institutions.' DR. KITZHABER