By Evan Falchuk

I was interested to see that there are some 100 different healthcare reform proposals summarized in the Congressional Budget Office’s recent analysis of the subject. What struck me is this: if you’re sick, you don’t need a CBO study of healthcare reform. You need time with your doctor, the right diagnosis, and the right treatment. Regardless of how we end up organizing the funding of our healthcare system over the next few years, the most important thing will remain that relationship between doctor and patient and the time they can spend together working to get it right. It’s a reality I was reminded recently in my trouble with with a sinus infection.