"Doctors are the only people who can drive the change in healthcare delivery that's needed to save the country from a financial crisis [said Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD, chair of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia] ... [T]he U.S.'s healthcare spending last year -- $2.87 trillion -- makes it equivalent to the fifth largest economy in the world. 'We spend more on healthcare in this country than the 66 million French spend on everything in their society,' he said."  MORE >>