State of Union Overlooks Healthcare Reform

South Florida doctors and patients may have noticed that healthcare reform took a distant second place to the economy in Pesident Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech to Congress last week.

In his 70-minute speech, Obama mentioned either “healthcare” or “health insurance” only 3 times, compared to 6 references in 2011 and 10 in 2010. Medicare and Medicaid were each mentioned just once.

Read more about the conspicuous absence of healthcare reform in an article titled, “State of the Union Speech Long on Jobs, Short on Healthcare,” published by Medscape Medical News.