Decades ago the American auto industry was feverishly reconverting their tank and machine gun operations back to the production of automobiles. Between 1940 and 1945, the American automobile industry produced $29 billion dollars worth of military equipment to defeat Germany and Japan and at war’s end the big three of the industry, GM, Ford And Chrysler, were gearing up to become the biggest and most profitable companies the world had ever seen. Their dominance and success became a staple of the American economy, but just yesterday, the top execs from these same three corporations, came a courting to the American taxpayer to help keep them afloat.
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The President’s June 23rd press conference on health care reform aimed to address the plans of the administration and quell concerns over the substantial legislative changes. 
A recent article in The New Yorker titled “The Cost Conundrum,” seeks to answer the question of the connection between healthcare cost and quality through a case study of one of the most expensive health care markets in the country. McAllen, Texas, has one of the lowest household income averages in the country at twelve thousand per capita a year, yet, in 2006, Medicare spent almost twice the national average on expenses per enrollee, to the tune of fifteen thousand. What caused this extreme unbalance in healthcare expenses? Were the citizens simply less healthy? Or were they just receiving much better care?