Proposed health plan to expand coverage

In the last few months, a Congressman from Maryland was hanged in effigy, a recent GOP vice presidential nominee forecast impending "death panels" - in apparent reference to a provision in a Senate bill written by a fellow Republican - and the eminent physicist Stephen Hawking was drawn into the tumultuous health care reform debate, which has been enveloped by a political black hole of misinformation.Beyond the misleading rhetoric and hyperbolic charges of a "government takeover of health care," our ailing health care system currently faces three central challenges: soaring costs, shrinking coverage and quality of care disparities.