TY - JOUR T1 - October Focus JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 714 LP - 714 DO - 10.3399/bjgp09X472548 VL - 59 IS - 567 AU - David Jewell Y1 - 2009/10/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/59/567/714.abstract N2 - How should we fund our healthcare system?, asks Keith Taylor on page 765. We have all been following, more with a sense of wonder than anything else, the rising temperature of debates in the US on Obama's campaign to reform the healthcare system there, while the distant sound of the next election campaign here in the UK is giving us advanced warning that healthcare costs are likely to be an election issue. George Lundberg, the doyen of medical editors, has posted a blog listing seven steps that could, he estimates, save $750 billion annually.1 We might not be looking to make savings on such a scale here (although some of Lundberg's steps are ones that we should certainly be considering all the time). However many of us think we know … ER -