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Readers React: Healthcare reform race has just begun

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Re “Obamacare enrollments top 8 million,” April 18

As a physician devoted to the care of the indigent, I applaud President Obama’s initiative to provide healthcare insurance for uninsured Americans. That reporting enrollments in a federal program is considered front-page news underscores the troubled history of this program.

Of far deeper concern is that these are just enrollments. In other words, the hard work has not even begun.

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With the most expensive healthcare system in the world by an order of 10, and one that has many Byzantine contortions to stymie patients and providers alike, providing cost-effective care to those previously considered uninsurable will certainly stress the system in unforeseeable ways.

The race needs to be started before taking a victory lap.

Jonathan D. Kaunitz, MD

Santa Monica

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