Thompson Calls For Speedy Legislative Action On Health Care

... "Our legislative system isn't keeping up with our health care system," Tommy Thompson, director of the National Coalition on Health Care and former HHS secretary, writes in a Des Moines Register opinion piece. Thompson says that figures from the recent Census Bureau report -- which indicated that 46.6 million U.S. residents were uninsured in 2005 -- "understate the dimensions of the problem. [click link for full article] ...