During this season of open enrollment for health insurance, when state employees may re-consider their insurance options, I am writing to ask people in Madison and Dane County to consider their choices seriously.
You might think all health plans, all HMOs, all hospitals, all doctors are pretty much the same.
But you would be wrong. Perhaps even dead wrong.
(Meg Gaines is the founder and director of the nationally recognized, award-winning Center for Patient Partnerships at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a clinical professor of law.0