Health care law ‘good start' (in the conservative Omaha World Herald!)

http://www.omaha.com/article/20100407/NEWS01/704079862#health-care-law-good-start

By Rick Ruggles WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER

Published Wednesday April 7, 2010

The new federal health care law takes small steps toward addressing the nation's shortage of primary-care doctors but doesn't solve the problem, an Omaha physician told a local audience of about 150 Tuesday night.

Dr. Thomas Tape said he told Barack Obama at a Des Moines appearance before Obama's 2008 election as president that real health care reform couldn't be achieved without fixing the shortage of primary-care doctors. Obama agreed and moved to the next question, Tape said.

Tape said Tuesday that the law doesn't provide a solution to the situation, “but it's a good start.”

Similarly, he said, the law fails to come close to solving all of the nation's medical woes. But solutions have “got to start somewhere,” and the law provides a start, said Tape, vice chairman of the internal medicine department at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Tape, who has tracked health care legislation for the past year as a member of a UNMC panel, spoke at the UNMC Science Cafe.

The public forum is held monthly at Slowdown, the north downtown rock venue and bar. A monthly Science Cafe also takes place at red9, a music venue in Lincoln.

FULL story at link.