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Health care needs fix

The Spokesman-Review

Our nation’s health care system is in need of serious repair. I want to thank The Spokesman-Review for its editorial supporting U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell’s work to reform Medicare and make sure Washington state doctors are rewarded for providing high-quality and efficient care.

For three decades our state has been punished for providing good care for less money. In some states, which have a lot of waste and inefficiencies in their health care systems, hospitals and physicians are paid three times as much per patient as their colleagues in Washington. We need to change this unfair system.

The physicians in Washington are ready to teach the rest of the country how to deliver great medical care without wasting our community’s dollars. Let’s reform this broken system, while also working to increase access to high-quality, affordable care for all.

Deb Harper, M.D.

Spokane

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