Introduction: In Search of Excellence-Exploring the Economics of Breast Care

摘要

As we go to press with this issue of Seminars in Breast Disease, we have a new President of the United States, old problems, and renewed hope for health care reform. President Obama recently stated, "The problems we face today are a direct consequence of actions we failed to take yesterday. Since Teddy Roosevelt first called for reform nearly a century ago, we have talked and tinkered. We have tried and fallen short; stalled time and time again by failures of will, or Washington DC politics, or industry lobbying. Today, there are those who say we should defer health care reform once again because, at such a time of economic crisis, we simply cannot afford to fix our health care system as well (http:// www.healthreform.gov)."