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We Must Reduce Health Care Costs*

*But please don't touch mine, no matter how wasteful

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 24, 2009 10:37 AM CST

(Newser) – The brouhaha over mammograms proves that we’ll never corral health care costs for one simple reason: no one wants to give up any care. Intellectually, women may understand that life-threatening breast cancer is pretty rare before age 50, but rare doesn’t mean non-existent....   Read full story »

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