Conversation with a Health Care Leader: the past and future of health reform with Dr. Susan Rudd Bailey

Today we talked with Susan Rudd Bailey, MD who is the President of the nation's largest state medical society about the genesis of federal health reform and what she expects for the future.  This nationally known leader of the Texas Medical Association is candid in her discussion of the role that physicians and patients play in determining the ultimate outcome of the recent federal health regulation.  She also discusses the implications of the flawed funding mechanism for Medicare -- the so called "SGR".