Dr. Jose Magana feels powerless.

The nation’s health-care system is controlled by insurance companies and pharmaceutical giants, not the doctors caring for patients, the internal medicine specialist told Democratic congressional candidate Bill Foster and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin Thursday. He wondered aloud how it could be reformed in the best interests of patients.

“Society in general needs to step up,” Magana said during a roundtable discussion among doctors and the two candidates at Dreyer Medical Clinic in Aurora.

Foster, who earned Durbin’s endorsement, supports a public-private hybrid health-care system and said federal lawmakers should examine the results from single-payer universal health-care systems like the one Massachusetts implemented in 2006

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