>>>Why prospects for reforming health care look so dim<<< But why reform? Bush said in his Tuesday speech we have the best health care in the world: ".....we will preserve the system of private medicine that makes America's health care the best in the world." <A HREF="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/01/20040120-7.html" target="_new">http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/01/20040120-7.html</A>