Dr. Patrick Cobb is immediate past President of the Community Oncology Alliance and Chairman of the COA Policy Committee and Ted Okon is Executive Director, Community Oncology Alliance.  As we have witnessed with the recent financial crisis, policy makers are not especially adept at proactively indentifying potential problems. Instead, they are more prone to be reactive and use legislation to try to fix problems after they occur. For years, the cancer community has been trekking up to Capitol Hill...