Will Obamacare succeed where term limits failed?

[Montmorency]

Furthermore: Get providers to treat tried-and-true technologies and procedures with more respect, as opposed to pushing the latest pricy-yet-ineffective 'device of wonder' on credulous or bewildered patients. It makes no sense to invest hugely in expensive-but-unproven techs, especially with short-term obsolescence being the norm, unless it's all just a marketing trick on the part of hospitals, far closer to rock-walls and multimedia centers at colleges than anything else...

This hi-tech fetish has permeated American culture for something like a century, though, so - tied closely to the end-of life care issue, it is urgent that the public at large be divorced from such notions of 'newer is better', 'more expensive is better', and most importantly: 'I deserve the best!'