We must be careful not to over bias these forums, and so we want leaders of some of the HMOs, some of the universities, some of the health plans, as well as some researchers to participate in this to see what we need to do from an outside perspective. We envision having about five such meetings throughout the year. I'm beginning to hear a great deal of anxiety from the populace in Philadelphia regarding their uneasiness with the health plans that they're being offered. We have a lot of anecdotal evidence that people want something different. The big question now is what can we help design with the public that will correct some of these problems.
Patients often come up short when their insurance coverage is different from what they imagined.
We realize there's a terrible problem with drug pricing. I think we will have to call attention to that. We obviously have little in the way of muscle to help out in that regard. We cannot boycott, but we can give the public information about some of these extraordinary prices that are falling on the sick in Philadelphia. Medicaid is being done fairly well, but I think we have to look at it carefully because that's where the children are, in large measure.