jack lewin is the ceo of American college of cardiology and former health care advisor to president clinton. Good morning, doctor, thanks for being here this morning. Tell us exactly how obama's nationalized health care could limit the mri's and ct scans cs this kun, especially in rural areas? well, now, we did a 29% r ducks in morbidity and mow talty and heart disease deaths in this country in the last eight which is the whole world is looking at stunning. And part of that due to image techniques that prevent heart attack, congenital disease, aneurysms and ruptures, all sorts of things. Imaging as it's more sophisticated there are more imaging tests and congress and medicare wanted to reduce the prices of imaging which could actually reduce the availability of these services to millions and millions of Americans who haven't received them and need them in rural areas and even gender and ethnic disparities occur. So the balance is stop the inappropate tests and find a better way than the current plans to limit the use of these services. Wait a second, doctor, of because the point of universal health care, it's supposed to make medine more accessible to people who don't have good coverage. So why this paradox? well, I think for one thing, that the amount of these tests have gone up. Obviously, some of them, with any new technology, people aren't getting the right test the first time. You've got mr, ct, echo, nuclear tests, and the idea is to stop paying on a volume
